China's capital may be racing towards the future at breakneck speed but sneak behind one of the city's glittering, ultra-modern tower blocks and you find a slice of old Beijing that seems to have been lost in time.
The point is that just like a lot of money can be made or lost in a casino in a very short time, a lot of money can be made or lost in Apple stock in a very short time almost every day.
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Named Taiwan's vice premier just last week, Lai In-jaw lost no time in declaring that banking reform was one of the new cabinet's priorities.
Every attempt to get answers from Chapters got lost in phony time zone excuses.
Honda North America has cut accidents that resulted in lost time by 70% in the past five years.
It may seem from all this that the exchange is a dysfunctional organisation lost in a time warp.
In addition to the military and civilian lives lost in that time, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 127 journalists and 50 media support workers drivers, fixers, guards and interpreters have been killed during the conflict as well.
Although the Americans emphasised that Mr Dulaimi was not himself implicated in the plot, Sadrist deputies lost little time in accusing Sunni politicians of having links to terrorists.
We have lost the Mayfair and we have lost Riverside and way back in time we lost the club A'Gogo so how much history do you want to get rid of?
Russia lost no time in claiming that Chechnya was the key to the problem.
And our enemies have lost no time in initiating changes in the Lebanese, and indeed regional landscape.
President George Bush lost no time in paying tribute to country legend Johnny Cash after his recent death.
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Hart led Forest to the Championship play-off semi-finals in 2003, but the Reds lost in extra-time to Sheffield United.
McCain lost no time in returning Romney's attacks, taking umbrage especially at Romney's characterization of his policies as liberal.
But Mr Sharon then lost little time in shucking off this caretaker image.
Its two biggest challenges are reducing its debt and making up for lost time in China, where GM has done far better.
The church is at the heart of a lost-in-time village, full of rambling stone houses surrounded by wooded slopes where locals collect chestnuts in autumn.
That means you can land much closer to your ultimate destination, making up on the ground for any lost time in the air.
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Earlier, Trescothick thrilled the 7, 000-strong Taunton crowd, making up for lost time in a competition which had previously seen him average less than 18.
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Quayle lost no time in going after Clinton on moral grounds.
Robots are becoming more commonplace, and international organized crime groups and terrorists have lost no time in deploying these technologies as part of their field operations.
The road will bear more traffic, the area more people (at least 6, 000 workers will be needed for the dam building at its peak) and this part of Patagonia will certainly lose its remote, lost-in-time feel.
Making matters worse, chronic absence is more harmful to lower-income students, experts say, because families have less access to transportation and health care, and fewer resources to make up for lost time in the classroom.
It's been a long while since Magellan comprehensively updated its RoadMate GPS mapping units, so the company's making up for lost time in style by introducing no less than seven new models in one shot.
Or if you're a basketball player you're playing the game or if you're a musician you're playing a concert and you're kind of lost in space and time and you're not thinking about all the mundane (expletive) that we think about.
Joe Johnson scored 19 points and Brook Lopez had 18 for the Nets, who were outscored 60-29 in the second half and lost for the sixth time in nine games.
Despite appalling labour relations in 1996-97, it was responsible for two-thirds of all time lost in Britain through industrial disputes it enjoys high approval ratings.
Arencibia had a solo drive in the ninth but the Blue Jays lost for the third time in four games.
The struggling Davis (2-3) allowed seven runs in five-plus innings as the Royals lost for the fourth time in their last five games.
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