Over the last summer they had a couple of months where only one or no games were released.
This may not be the last summer that bankers have their holidays interrupted.
But now everyone with a Twitter feed is a town crier: Social media usage has surged since the last summer games.
Matthew Hoggard missed almost all of the last summer and Steve Harmison can never manage an entire series without breaking down at some point.
Friday night's taped opening ceremony -- an event NBC worked diligently to keep out of cyberspace -- attracted 34.2 million people, up 35% from the last summer games.
During the last summer games, NBC devoted a hefty slice of their 272 prime-time hours to the sport, pumping up the drama of Michael Phelps last games, and so on.
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The vacuum of power created by the withdrawal last summer of the Israeli military has given rise for the moment to anarchy.
Johnson came into the Ashes last summer as the most highly rated fast bowler in world cricket, with expectations high that English conditions would help him find the swing that makes him so dangerous.
According to Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, the pope started thinking about writing the letter last summer after the publication of the Ryan report -- one of three separate reports on sexual and physical abuse by Irish clergy that has come out since 2005.
The US-based company made the announcement last summer, saying the plant had been making a loss for several years.
The research team notified Amazon about the issues last summer, and the company responded by posting a notice to its customers and partners about the problem.
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Deputy Health Minister Markos Bolaris, who took the post last summer, said the new program is aimed at allowing the nation's limited resources to reach those who have real need.
However, even the combination of the severe recession of 2007-2009, the slowdown last summer, and the renewed slowdown this year, has still not corrected all the excesses of the previous partying on easy money, and bursting of the real estate bubble.
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This judge tried to put the kibosh on the program last summer, just before the school year began.
The Scottish government set up the review last summer following criticism that the laws involved were too complex and bureaucratic.
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Since Southwest began using the model last summer, it has cut the time crews spend on the ground between flights more than 25%.
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state officials violated the law last summer during a takeover of the Bridgeport public school system.
Parts about the role of "community gatekeepers" in flying flags, which featured in an earlier draft seen by the BBC last summer, are missing from the latest report.
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Liberals hope that Mr Singh's reformist instincts will enjoy freer rein now that Congress is no longer beholden to the communist parties which abandoned the government last summer and suffered horribly at the polls this spring.
It was approved in the USA last summer where it has become the only non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) - a class of HIV drug - to be included as a first line option in national guidelines.
Prior to his confirmation by the Senate last summer, Kloske tried to allay the concerns of a number of Senators about the process by which decontrol actions were being handled.
Sure, we have a couple of months of fair weather yet, and several more weeks of summer, but Labor Day is the last major summer holiday when friends and family gather around the hibachi, kettle grill, or gas grill, or whatever it is you cook on.
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Edinburgh, which joined the consortium last summer, is offering six courses across the humanities, engineering and science.
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The trade is only loosely regulated: though 39 illegal Chinese cocklers were arrested in the area last summer, some Chinese secured permits when the beds opened in December.
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Dobbie signed for the Swans last summer on a free transfer from Queen of the South - where he scored 47 goals in 83 appearances - before then-manager Roberto Martinez quit the club for Wigan Athletic.
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Solanki, 31, has played in 51 one-day internationals, the last in the summer of 2006 and also featured in England's Twenty20 squad in South Africa in September.
Not since Mexico city in 1968 have they been held in one, unless you count Seoul in 1988, the last time the summer games were held in Asia.
Chef Timothy Bilton serves everything from Greedy Little Pig Yorkshire pork to locally stalked venison under the beams at this cosy gastropub, which featured in the Last of the Summer Wine TV series.
Wednesday in the Commons begins (at 11.30am) with questions to the International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, followed at high noon by prime minister's questions - the last before the summer break.
After all, it was Sunday, one of the last of the summer, and a lovely one at that - a good day not to ask people to wait in long lines to pass through security checkpoints.
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