Part of the reason we think this is because over the years we've been watching Microsoft develop products that have taken years to catch on and gain dominance.
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The curious accounting Congress uses for tax projections counts the Roth liberalization as a revenue raiser, even though it loses money in the long run, because the loss years lie over the horizon.
Because over the last three years, as President of the United States, I have kept my commitments to the state of Israel.
Because over the last 10 years and more, once the Millennium Development Goals were agreed, global development funding focused on trying to deliver those goals.
Now, I want all the young people here to listen, because over the next 10 years, nearly half of all new jobs are going to require a level of education that goes beyond a high school degree.
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PulteGroup (PHM) may post the most impressive operational rebound simply because its results over the last few years have been so lame.
Jackson said the blame has to be placed initially with BP because the company gave federal officials assurances over the years that nothing like this could ever happen, and there really was no contingency plan in case it did.
In the short term, obviously we've got to focus on the devastation that occurred because of this recession over the last two years.
Oprah Winfrey is a billionaire because of the value of her holdings in things like Discovery and Harpo Productions, not because of the ad revenue her show generated over the years.
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Store credit card issuers as a whole have taken flak from the Fed over the past couple of years because of the way they instantaneously approve consumers at the register, rather than truly evaluating their credit and the likelihood that they will be able to pay back their debt.
Roberts believes the soap lends itself to the stage because the language and feel of Coronation Street over the years has been "very theatrical and also quite musical".
We've also been able to do it because the United States and Russia over the last several years have shown ourselves to have a mutual interest in making sure that nuclear materials are secured and that they do not fall into the wrong hands.
"It's been difficult for us as Interpol to sustain our activities" against counterfeiting over the years, she said, because the agency's limited resources also are needed for areas the international community sees as more serious crimes.
While the rate of injury for skiing overall has declined over the past 60 years because of better equipment and training, knee injuries remain common in the sport, particularly among women, according to a 2003 study.
Many examples, according to Dr Pillinger, have probably been discarded over the years because they did not fit the existing notions of what meteorites should look like.
Dirks, 68, has been a Friar for a decade, possibly because of his hilarious explanations over the years for stumbles with securities laws, fines against him and his brokerages and a finding of fraud.
Gephardt would immediately be a major presence in the field because of his deep ties to union leaders and other Democratic groups, and because he has worked diligently over the years to keep a network of supporters in place in Iowa.
"The schools have so much to build on because of the national identities they were able to build over the years, " said Bill Raftery, the former coach at Seton Hall and veteran announcer who built his career calling the games of the original Big East.
The IMF wants the EU to agree to a bail-out to tide Greece over the next three years, because it will not be able to tap the markets in 2012, as hoped.
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But because the Big Three had unveiled umpteen unfulfilled turnaround plans over the years, Mr Ford needed to give this latest effort credibility, especially with the company's bankers.
We want to make sure they're not in the floodplain because, unfortunately, we've had experiences over the years where we placed mobile homes inappropriately and people died as a result of subsequent storms.
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That has come reluctantly because he's beaten them so badly over the years and they're not in any rush to help him because if he's gone that's one less guy they have to beat.
The HR Manager for a software development company hired for talent for over two years and then stopped for two years because the two owners thought they could do a better job of selecting good Technical Support Analysts (TSA) than Sonja, their HR Manager.
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The monitoring market has gotten lots of flack over the years, because of crowdedness, and decent, but never jaw-dropping exits.
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And unfortunately, over the years, because Northern Ireland had a conflict, it's all been, kind of, bad news: troubles, killings, bombings, et cetera.
"This gold again confirmed my hard work over the years, because I knew to get this again I'd have to work even harder, " Lin said.
Mr Sedgwick told MPs that the agency had always tried to give MPs accurate information on unresolved cases but there was a "necessary imprecision" about the figures because of the number of years over which they had accumulated.
As a result, even if your uninspired work down at the cracker factory yielded nothing more than cost-of-living raises over the past 40 years, you would become more susceptible to the AMT over time purely because the exemption was not increasing in lock-step with your wages.
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"The reason the broadband market is where it is, is because there has been zero capital efficiency over the past few years--everybody has tried to replicate everything, " Jenkins says.
This backlash will help define the biotech and pharmaceutical industries in the coming years, because it means over time a shift in opportunities and capital away from a search for the next psychiatric blockbuster toward solutions to more tractable human troubles that arise outside of the central nervous system.
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