David Satter, a Russia watcher much more respected and well-known than your humble author, recently made some extremely odd commends about Russian demographics in an interview with Katherine Jean Lopez of National Review Online about his new book It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past.
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Hannah Elliott: Yoko, as you re-read this book does it seem like it was you who wrote it or is it like reading the work of someone else, since it was so long ago?
It was not long ago that RIM and Nokia were kings of the mobile world.
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It was a long time ago and I am not certain but I think the topic was Intel.
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Politics makes for strange bedfellows, it was said long ago, and the same can be said for global affairs.
After all, it was not long ago that even the house of Wallenberg came perilously close to losing its bank.
Through six decades, he's only been late to work once, and it was so long ago, he can't even remember why.
It was not long ago that there was a big concern regarding the future of Apple in the absence of Steve Jobs.
It was not long ago that South Africa were legitimate contenders to the 'best around' title, snapping as they were at Australia's heels.
It was not long ago that emerging markets could do no wrong, the darling of Wall Street and the bearer of bold and bullish predictions.
He said that he was very young when he stepped on the Moon and that it was a long time ago, so let's move on!
It was not long ago that there was intense speculation about Apple introducing a full-fledged TV dubbed by many as iTV, even though this name is not available to Apple.
About money, it should be remembered that it was conceived long ago solely to facilitate the exchange of goods, and as a way for market actors to measure the value of investments.
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Apple is very restrictive, just like AOL. The opportunities to customize are limited, not much different from AOL It was not long ago that the general belief was that Apple users would not leave Apple.
However, Hitoshi Tanaka, a Japanese foreign-policy expert who has taken part in comfort-women negotiations in the past, says it was long ago agreed between the two countries that Japan could not offer state handouts to individuals, however much they suffered, on the (admittedly curious) ground that the demands would be endless.
It was not that long ago that First Solar was considered the beacon of American innovation.
It was not that long ago that the military appeared 100% under Wiranto's control.
It was not too long ago that consumers nationwide had a wide variety of firms to choose from.
So it was clear as long ago as 1991 that the 32-digit scheme would have to be extended.
It was not that long ago that Yahoo hired a former PayPal exec, Scott Thompson, to lead the company.
"It was such a long time ago, and we are getting older, and we have our different lives, " she says.
It was not so long ago that the Islanders' were the NHL's punch line, and their games were attended by few.
It was not so long ago, in the early decades after World War II, that we had fairly high savings rates.
It was not so long ago that Kim energetically pursued political and economic reform, prosecuting both corrupt business heads and former presidents.
It was not too long ago that they lived a similar experience.
It was not too long ago a 40-mpg car looked like the Geo Metro miserable, scandalous, slow, a broken promise of a car.
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