More importantly, the country is much less vulnerable to external shocks than it used to be.
All of this makes the area much more elaborate and glamorous than it used to be.
It used to be that there was a veil drawn around the industry, it was secret.
You know business is just not as simple for many as it used to be.
"It's those times when we remember how it used to be, " says his mom.
"Brand loyalty isn't what it used to be in terms of celebrity magazines, " she explains.
The downside of the ridiculous, defiant defense is much less severe than it used to be.
It used to be the boats would go out 100 miles, now they go out 500.
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It used to be that the second layer of tax could easily be avoided.
It used to be that nine out of 10 Indonesian children completed primary school.
It used to be 30 years ago, people would come up and be really upset.
It used to be that serving as outside counsel to pensions was a pretty sleepy business.
It used to be big news when beloved singers or bands licensed their songs for advertising.
But there is something else that is radically changing the way it used to be.
Ms. LENORE SEELEY (Central New York Works): Work isn't what it used to be.
Her life, however, is still far from what it used to be before the floods.
"It used to be a very mysterious thing to travel to Asia, " Boyd says.
Yet Alaska continues to pull in people looking for American wilderness as it used to be.
It used to be fairly common, though no one's done it in almost 27 years.
It used to be divided into categories of products (shoes, apparel, gear like golf clubs).
"The support ain't like it used to be, " says Darryl Parlow, 42, third-generation owner.
There is more emphasis on song now while it used to be the traditional hymn-sermon-hymn pattern.
It used to be dealmakers got in a room together to look over sensitive business proposals.
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Named after South Africa's first black nurse, under apartheid it used to be the blacks-only hospital.
It used to be thought that money was the best way to motivate employees.
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Although still good, the team is older and just not what it used to be defensively.
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It used to be you created a Super Bowl ad and you were done.
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It used to be a sort of natural law that urban Catholics voted Democratic.
In 1890 the church banned the polygamy for which it used to be notorious.
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