Today, people need to pause and examine whether they are doing business as usual in a world that increasingly does not reward doing business as usual.
And people are trying to keep a normal way of life here but it's not normal, it's not business as usual here.
It may not last almost nothing does, for better or worse but this is certainly not business as usual by the standards of many another time.
"It is not business as usual anymore with the Russians, and there are consequences for doing what they are doing, " one senior U.S. official said.
"The new pope is sending a signal that this will not be business as usual, " he said.
So there is strong support among Americans for his belief that the place needs a shake-up, not business-as-usual diplomacy.
Relations, he told the BBC, "should not be business as usual - they should be better than usual because there is a lot of untapped potential in developing Russia-EU relations on all fronts".
But the hotel is not open for business as usual after their departure.
"Business as usual is not going to move us towards a carbon neutral world, " said Jeff Gazzard, of the Aviation Environment Federation, who nevertheless welcomes the Davos declaration.
"This is not a time for business as usual or politics as usual".
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Mr Clegg backed a cross-party approach to setting up a new system of press regulation, saying "business as usual" was not acceptable.
However, governments will need to step up policies to stimulate renewable investment if the industries are to grow substantially, it says: business-as-usual will not be enough.
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My indication is that it is not unsettling, it is business as usual for policing in Lincolnshire.
All for carbon cutting in principle, then - but not if it might affect business as usual.
Reshuffle or not, it is "business as usual" at the Wales Office, the Whitehall department that represents Wales in the UK government.
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He had wanted to take with him signs that restructuring in South Korea had not been abandoned, or at least evidence that the chaebol would not be allowed to continue business as usual.
Mr Hardwick said the announcement was not unsettling for Lincolnshire Police and it was "business as usual".
But it may not be as resilient as Mumbai's business-as-usual signs.
"It does not represent any deterioration in financial strength and it is business as usual across the sector, " he added.
Business as usual - the orderly management of decline - is not an option according to the RSPB's Dr Mark Eaton.
The industry has not been cleaned-up and will soon return to business-as-usual.
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And when we see reports of firms once again engaging in risky bets to reap quick rewards, when we see a return to compensation practices that seem not to reflect what the country has been through, all that looks like business as usual to me.
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Arguably, all this could be called business as usual in Washington: industries defend their competing interests and, more often than not, end in stalemate.
At a time when we face not only a fiscal crisis, but also a host of difficult challenges as a nation, business as usual in Washington just won't cut it.
The point of the study is not to predict what will happen, but merely to point out what could happen in a business-as-usual scenario.
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