Remember, those were the days when taking a plane was like taking a bus.
Those were the days when they ruthlessly took over markets, brutally stomping on companies like Netscape, Lotus and WordPerfect.
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Apple put out three other singles on the same day it released "Hey Jude, " including "Those Were the Days" by Welsh singer Mary Hopkin.
"Those were the days, " smiles Houston with his arm around Smith.
Those were the days when plain white-and-black Reebok sneakers were hot.
Ah, those were the days: when it was such a big deal to get an e-mail message that you wanted to be alerted by a special announcement.
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Those were the days when banks tried to lock in corporate treasury customers with proprietary treasury workstations, each one good for connecting the corporate treasury to a single bank.
Those were the days of folks buying and flipping houses, or running up the mortgages on their bloated homes, and of dabbling in all sorts of exotic investments (which few understood).
But those were the days when its revenues grew at around 40% to 50% a year, it had the best business sales forces in the industry, and it acquired the companies making new products that its customers craved before those competitors could get a foothold.
What I mean to say is that those were the happiest days of my entire life.
Nor, as almost everyone in the world also agreed in those days, were the dangers of a nuclear Iran confined to the Middle East.
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But those targets were chosen in the early days after the cold war.
So they went up there and they discovered not only had they abandoned those positions, they had moved four miles toward the west, toward the city of Mosul ... without a shot being fired on the ground, although those positions were fairly severely bombed over the past 10 days or so.
So the Young Turks, who were in charge of the country at those days, needed to resist them.
Instead, the images dominating the news these past few days were those of men hammering out critical plays down to the fourth quarter.
Although the process was unwieldy, those who worked on Ceefax during the pioneering days were conscious that they were taking part in an information revolution of some magnitude long before the world wide web arrived on the scene.
Not surprisingly, the banks that were carried away most by the euphoria of those days are now finding life hardest.
Now, the people I worked with in those early days in Chicago, they were looking for the same thing that Americans everyplace aspire to.
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New York and the country were in the throes of recession, which in those days normally was induced by excesses in inventory accumulation and plant over expansion, not financial mufti puffti.
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The first fractional reserve lenders (typically the goldsmiths of bygone days) were those who issued receipts for storage of gold on behalf of others in the community, and who made a side business of lending.
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In response, Chris Bryant, shadow immigration minister, cited figures showing that at least 107 times during those 15 days, the targets were breached.
When I heard Umaru's interview with him, he came across as unabashed, unapologetic and indeed quite proud to say that The Gambia was "hell for journalists" - even in those early days journalists were not his favourite people and some learnt the hard way not to upset the young leader.
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