Today, app store users around the world are going to have their moment in deciding whether the Angry Birds phenomenon was a flash in the pan or a slightly longer, sustained fire in the pan.
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Do they represent the next major challenge for the U.S. and a new corporate form that poses a major threat to the survival of U.S. corporations or, as in the case of Japan, is this a flash in the pan that will in due course also implode with devastating consequences for the Chinese economy?
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The interviewers all wondered: Is Lady Gaga a flash in the pan or the real thing?
Ms. Hummel is afraid that the Windows technology is a flash in the pan given her recollection of Microsoft's feeble attempt to take on Apple's iPod with its Zune portable digital-music player.
While debt and venture capital supports the big wins of any number of flash in the pan ideas, we have created a company that will be around for future generations with the same guiding principles that are in place today.
So is the success of clean energy a flash in the pan, or does green-tech have a long-term future?
Maybe the whole smartphone thing has just been a flash in the pan?
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Chrysler's turnaround in the U.S., under the enormously able Dieter Zetsche--who may some day head up all of DaimlerChrysler--is no flash in the pan and is unlike past comebacks that were inevitably followed by company-threatening crashes.
To some old-school analysts this makes fracking seem like a flash in the pan.
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"I don't want to be perceived as being a flash in the pan, " he says.
Time will tell if this is a flash in the pan or a lasting trend.
"This is not a flash in the pan, " says Subra Subramanian of Warburg Dillon Read Securities (India).
We want to produce something that will be really useful rather than just a flash in the pan.
"This is not a prime ministerial flash in the pan, " he said.
For Soderling, it gives further proof that his shock defeat of Nadal at Roland Garros last year was anything but a flash in the pan.
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Now we get to see if Korean pop star Psy is really going to turn into an international pop star or if he was just a flash in the pan.
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He said Enfield's success at FGCU wasn't a flash in the pan and that his up-tempo style and stingy defense will be fun for both the Trojans players and fans.
And this team, I think that if they were a flash in the pan club, if they hadn't been here before so many times, you might say okay this is a game where they might be tight.
That comeback was to be a mere flash in the pan for the visitors as Schalke continued to dominate, Kyriakos Papadopoulos providing a constant aerial threat which the onlooking Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will have noted.
"Free ISPs are not going to be just a flash in the pan if they can create value-added services" and can keep surfers coming back to their websites, says Matthew McGarvey, regional Internet analyst for International Data Corp. in Hong Kong.
Those who saw it as a flash in the pan looked like fools when it took over the wired world, while those who saw it as a techno-utopia that would enlighten (and enrich) the world now hold stock options that are under water.
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Steiff animals arent flash-in-the-pan collectibles like Pet Rocks in the Seventies or Beanie Babies in the Nineties, says Timothy Luke, former director of collectibles for Christies, who owns a 50-piece collection.
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