Look at apartments, which not too long ago were dogs because folks preferred to buy homes with cheap mortgage money then available.

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He says a false birth certificate is a crime that can no longer be prosecuted because it happened so long ago and it does not prove a baby has been stolen.

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Not so long ago Germany seemed the supplicant because of its reliance on Russian oil and gas.

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Because anorexia can cause death, that figure was used not long ago to support the wild claim that 150, 000 American women die of anorexia every year (the correct figure is fewer than 80).

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"Not so long ago people couldn't work here because armed groups extorted money from them, or they were simply killed for taking bids from the Americans, " he says.

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Not long ago, bosses were protective of their dividends, because investors saw them as the most potent signal that management could send about the future of its business.

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Not too long ago the BLS assumed that the price of gasoline went down because of the use of a new additive that improved performance.

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Because the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) did a study not long ago about the nations with the greatest social mobility, and the list reads shockingly close to the one Chris quoted.

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Not long ago, many people criticized Apple, Mattel and other American companies for manufacturing there because labor conditions there were bad and the government was unlike America's.

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Not long ago, Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong upgraded the company to a long-term buy because it believed more good news was to come and the market hadn't fully accounted for expected future earnings.

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