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.
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"I don't want to be perceived as being a flash in the pan, " he says.
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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We want to produce something that will be really useful rather than just a flash in the pan.
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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.
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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