"Asia had its heyday when it was alone in the context of emerging markets, " says Knight.

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"There's nothing that compares to it when it was in its heyday, " Pitoniak said.

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Boeheim was talking about Georgetown-Syracuse, a rivalry unmatched in its heyday in the 1980s when the Big East Conference was in its infancy.

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Spin itself has withered somewhat since its heyday in the 1990s, when it was closely identified with the rise of alternative rock, but it still has a circulation of 350, 000.

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Lincoln has fallen dramatically in consumer favor since its heyday in the late1990s, when the Lincoln Town Car and the Lincoln Navigator made it one of the hottest luxury auto brands in the country.

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No one is predicting a return to the company's heyday in the 1990s, when its blue triangle logo was everywhere and its chirpy "You've Got Mail" greeting inspired the title of a hit Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romantic comedy.

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The answer seems to lie in the heyday of Romanticism and its aftermath, when the role of the clown became associated somehow with the artist's own ambivalent status.

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Not today's Gap a lumbering giant in decline but Gap in its heyday, the late '80s and '90s, when its pocket tees and pleated khakis costumed the planet.

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With hindsight, it is apparent that this so-called "Team B" proved more accurate than its official counterparts when it came to projecting the character of Soviet policy and programmatic activities in the heyday of the 1970's detente.

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