That is what happened to HTC, which rose from obscurity in the late 2000s.
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In the late 2000s, before the recession, German essentials like food escalated at rates near 7% annually.
Motorola's mobile-phone business has been struggling since its RAZR handsets fell out of fashion in the late 2000s.
But the Nascar merchandise market collapsed in the late 2000s due to a weak economy and an over-saturated market.
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But Estonia did not escape the global economic crisis and found itself with a shrinking economy in the late 2000s.
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Charges were filed after formal complaints were made to police in the late 2000s and prosecutor Ramsay Quaife successfully argued Ovenden had abused his victims.
The current condition of these meandering Mets is largely the aftereffect of blindly chasing a championship in the late 2000s at the expense of a thinning farm system.
In Bangladesh in the late 2000s, middle-class citizens supported a return of army rule, angry about the corruption of civilian politicians and fearful of the power of these elected populists.
It will take time for the revised strategy to bear fruit, as it did for Coca-Cola when it reset its course in the late 2000s after a series of management and marketing mishaps.
For a brief period, starting in the early 1990s and ending in the late 2000s, there was a widespread belief that the internet ought to stay open, allowing anyone with a good idea to present it online and have it evaluated based on its own merit and not on the size of the wallet supporting it.
Even in the late-2000s recession, Hublot was considered to be successful, with sales down 15 percent up to November 2009 compared with 30 percent for the entire Swiss luxury watch business.
This had come to pass in Japan in the late 1990s and again in the early 2000s, but had not occurred in most Western countries since the late 1950s.
Recall what happened to energy stocks in the late 1970s, when oil prices spiked, defense names during the Reagan arms buildup in the 1980s, media and telecom in the late 1990s, housing shares in the mid-2000s, and social media in 2012.
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But cutting interest rates as a first response to any distress in the financial sector has helped to blow bubbles in asset prices dotcom stocks in the late 1990s, house prices in the 2000s.
Observers note that while many Internet users know AOL only as the e-mail account they had in the late 1990s or early 2000s, the company has other properties that aren't typically associated with its brand.
He was born in Algeria in the 1970s and served in the Algerian army before joining the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, which was heavily involved in the Algerian insurgency in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Social media started to be actively used by publicly traded companies in the U.S. for investor relations activities in the mid-to-late 2000s, once again changing the communications landscape.
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Grossman became familiar with a summer camp in Maine called Seeds of Peace that brought young Israelis and Palestinians together for the summer in a neutral location.
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He's stayed vigorous into old age, guiding Harman International into a dominant position in the auto navigation and entertainment systems business in the late '90s and early 2000s.
Current opinion polls offer a stark contrast to the executive branch confidence ratings that hovered between 62 percent and 72 percent in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Even as energy prices rose and nuclear power plant capacity was boosted in the late 1990s and early 2000s, excess inventory and uranium from decommissioned Russian warheads kept prices low.
The broader trend here is that Internet providers, which saw huge gains in the late 1990s and early 2000s by rolling out all-you-can-eat access, are inevitably going to roll back those pricing policies.
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Increasing the emphasis on enforcement and on detecting fraud before it creates a system-wide crisis can be accomplished without any new legislation, though legislative changes in the late 1990s and early 2000s appear to have removed some barriers to fraud.
The wave of new drug development in myeloma dates to the late 1990s and early 2000s, when researchers were scouring old treatments for one that might have an impact on the cancer.
Non-fatal firearm violence declined from 1993 through 2004, then fluctuated in the mid-to-late 2000s.
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In the late 1990s through the early 2000s, it sold about 1, 500 RAV4s with a giant nickel-hydride battery.
These are primary tools to help the growing cadre of kids diagnosed with developmental disabilities, up 17% between the late 1990s and the late 2000s, according to a 2011 report published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Williams was arguably Britain's biggest pop star in the late 1990s and first part of the 2000s, selling 60 million solo albums and winning a record 17 Brit Awards.
The same thing happened with browsers: intense competition in the late 1990s between Netscape and Microsoft, followed by a period in the early 2000s where Microsoft was utterly dominant and browser innovation slowed.
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