Eight Years, and Back to the Start
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If you fled Wall Street eight years ago â remember Y2K? â and came back today, you might conclude that nothing much happened while you were gone. The Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks ended the last decade at 1469.25. Now, points out Howard Silverblatt of S.&P., it is at 1468.36. A decline [...].
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The William J. Clinton Presidential Center, in Little Rock, Ark., sprawls across eight years of big ambitions and small details.
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up 400,000 in just eight years, a report reveals. And experts warn the figure could grow to three million sufferers by 2010 as we get older and fatter.
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It&#39;s hard to break old habits, and after eight years of bickering, sniping and cockeyed stares, and a celebrated divorce that put almost 3,000 miles between them
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Thirty-seven years ago, Brian Wilson nearly completed what he hoped would be his masterwork. This year, in a way, he finished it.
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It has been a long and winding road paved with 30 years of disharmony.
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And so it comes around again, the seven-year itch. Shayne Culpepper was a metric miler when she made her first Olympic team in 2000 and now, two kids and a few laps around the planet later, she's back where she began.
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Taking a look back a few years can be unreal. Things change so often that it can be hard to fathom the paths of life that take place.
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Sixteen years ago I sent my wife a love note in the lead of a column. It went like this:
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Former British Open champion Ian  Baker-Finch is contemplating a return to competitive golf after  eight years away from the game.
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The Olympic Games are a week old! Not bad for an event first recorded in 776 BC. The Games have so far gone much better than anyone really expected.
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My rÃÂ¿sumÃÂ¿ is pretty short when it comes to endurance events. There was that 23- hour nonstop drive from New Hampshire to South Carolina back in 1987, and I vaguely remember a St. Patrick's Day drinking contest at the University of Maryland that lasted quite a while (thanks, Norman).
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It's been six years, but by one key measure, the marketing communications industry has worked its way back to where it was at the height of the Great Internet Bubble. This would mark a full recovery, and any business growth from here forward would take the industry into new record territory.
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The first stretch of the M8, which revolutionised motoring in Scotland, celebrates its 40th birthday.
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'Substantial progress in the last year'
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Eight years after his solo debut, Sean Lennon is releasing album No. 2.
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The beginning of the year is traditionally a time to look back, and, for the brave of heart, to make a few predictions looking forward.  Lacking the requisite bravery, I'll just quote something that the Economist wrote recently: Rejoice: the embrace of âopennessâ by firms that have grown fat on closed, proprietary technology is something weâll see more of in 2008.  Now, had this "fearless prediction" been made a year ago, I would have been impressed, because 2007 has turned out to be the year when everyone, it seems, wants to be open. read more