For the sharp-penned and quick-witted in those days the globe was there for trotting.
It is often forgotten that in those days the world stood with America.
Back in those days the choice of which inspirational figure to stick behind a lectern in front of your new M.
It is, however, for fighting and winning the Cold War that Ronald Reagan deserves the most credit -- and credit not just from Americans, but from the rest of what we called in those days the Free World, and from those in the former communist states who can now breathe the air of liberty.
In those days through the different brands and subsidiary companies Ford offered 97 models.
In those days, the only thing the town was known for was maple syrup.
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No one expected in those days that the House of Commons would be a target.
In those days, the IMF twisted their arms to make tough fiscal commitments they could not keep.
Also, back in those days, the rule of thumb was a manager could manage at most 7-8 direct reports.
In those days of the Cold War, the Hungarians had some reason to think they had a chance of escaping Soviet dominance.
Not even in those days did the home government accept that excuse.
In those days, the joke was that the round table was eight metres across because the world spitting record stood at seven metres.
"Rome seemed like a smaller town in those days at the turn of the century when you just saw the locals standing around, " she said.
In those days, the Dow Jones news ticker--a stand alone, upright machine--spilled out reams of broad tape financial news comparable with what comes across computer consoles today.
In those days, the Secret Service was housed inside the Treasury Department, and its job was to protect and defend the currency and monetary instruments of the United States.
In those early days the brothers traveled four hours by train to Mumbai each week to sell and deliver cartons of their vaccine, which they say was 40% cheaper than the alternative and better packaged.
In those days, the must-have gadget of the trucker craze was the CB radio, the method by which truckers kept in touch and warned each other of lurking "Smokies, " or police officers, setting speed traps.
In those days, the great shopping highlight was haggling at the old antique market at Panjiayuan or browsing the stalls on Yabao Road, jostling with Russian traders who came south on the Trans-Siberian Express to buy clothes by the bulk load.
Nor, as almost everyone in the world also agreed in those days, were the dangers of a nuclear Iran confined to the Middle East.
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He insisted that I read a newspaper every day, by which, of course, he meant the Times, which in those days was still the august paper of record.
Cisco's IPO in 1990 was the spark in those dark economic days that lit the present boom.
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They were in the minority, as technical analysts in those days had about the same standing as fortune tellers.
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"You can point back to the classics era and see that in those days some of the big films with the major stars were also great pictures and won Oscars, with Casablanca being the most classic example, " he says.
Even when Symbian was the de facto king of the smartphones, it never gained a solid foothold in the US. Developers flocked to iOS, and to a lesser extent the nascent Android platform, even though numerically in those days Symbian was the larger platform.
What unfolded in those few days in April gripped the country on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
In-car navigation, voice recognition, and MP3 support were still the stuff of science fiction in those dark days (particularly at the four-digit asking price), and the whole thing was doomed to a geeky, spendy niche.
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But Bill Casey, in the midst of battle, when it looked like, at the beginning of the Reagan administration, that the Russians, the Soviets, as we called them in those days, did have the upper hand, they were the moving power, they had invaded Afghanistan, they had built up their military, they were running in Latin America.
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