When Microsoft was in its salad days, it was made up entirely of hackers, good ones.

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It sounds healthy, but that margin is still about half what it has been in the salad days of rocketing real estate values.

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Steam, gas and electricity demonstrated exponential gains in their salad days.

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CNN's salad days, when it dared to upset the established networks, hired college kids as news producers and staggered from one financial crisis to another.

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Micro-greens--mini arugula, fennel and spinach--cost twice as much as full-sized greens, and they were a hit at high-end eateries during the salad days of the last economic boom.

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This was in Twitter's salad days, literally, when the most common knock on Twitter was that it offered little more than people boasting about what they ate for lunch.

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But alas, the salad days for consumers are over.

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Those were the salad days.

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We have an in-house cafeteria with a well-stocked salad bar, drinkable coffee and, on most days, a delicious homemade soup or two.

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Gone are the days when the only source of sustenance for a vegetarian in Paris was a goat cheese salad.

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