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.
Some, unbidden, brought up the name James A. Baker III, who ran Ronald Reagan's campaign in 1984 (megalandslide those were the days) and George H.
"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.
Let's just accept this as a fact, acknowledge those were the dark days and move on.
What I mean to say is that those were the happiest days of my entire life.
For the residents of Kinmen Island, a frontline in the defence against a communist invasion of Taiwan, those good times were the days of handsome brick villages, a thickly forested landscape, raucous festivals in tribute to protective deities and kilometres of sandy beaches free of terrifying landmines.
Those were "the olden days, the glory years, " as Connolly called them, and if fans waited long enough, the best players from the Islanders' Stanley Cup-winning teams of the early 1980s Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier, Denis Potvin, Clark Gillies would walk right out the Coliseum's front door and stop to sign autographs and pose for photos.
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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"The only rallies that came out on the streets in the last few days were those supporting the leadership of the country, " Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi said.
The amazing events that occurred over those 18 days were driven by the Egyptian people from all stripes -- from all corners of society who went out on the streets to air their grievances and make demands for more democratic representation and to be able to participate in the process and to create greater prosperity in Egypt.
Those were heady days for the media unraveling truth in Vietnam, covering the turmoil of Roe vs Wade, bringing down a president.
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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.
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