then as now

The walk down Broadway, then as now, was one of the remarkable features of the city.

Then, as now, the teachers' complaint was pay, and a war of attrition ended in 1987 after two years of intermittent strikes.

It was the art- then, as now, almost the only one within a woman's grasp- of needlework.

Then, as now, goods did not sit around on the wharf for long, so the ship probably embarked not long afterward.

Then as now, nations and empires did not restrain cities; they were merely filters for cities' global ambitions.

Then as now, New York was an ethnic melting pot, and Peterson says many black New Yorkers saw themselves as citizens of the world.

Then as now, China's concept of modernity was stability and harmony while in the West it was liberty and justice.

But then as now, those signs of recovery were unsustainable and only provided a false sense of stability, said Rosenberg.

Then as now, industry groups claimed that any attempt to limit emissions would inflict grievous economic harm.

I believed then, as now, that having a social relationship with a person who was supervising my work would be ill-advised.

Then, as now, they were barred from jobs that would be likely to expose them to combat.

Then, as now, its objective was to grab Washington's attention and parlay that into food, money and diplomatic concessions.

Living standards had to be raised in Latin America, then as now the world's most inegalitarian region.

That confounded the Keynesian theorists who believed then, as now, that federal spending "stimulus" would restore economic health.

And she had then as now gazed silently yet with great emotion at the official notice.

Then, as now, the word meant the substance glass.

Then, as now, the world lost confidence in the U. S. dollar as a store of value.

Even though it abandoned that mechanism decades ago, London remained then, as now, the centre of the industry.

Their agenda then, as now, was a discussion of America's missile-defense system plans.

Then, as now, big stock market declines sharply reduced the wealth of those who owned stocks.

Then, as now, commodities, emerging market equities and high-yielding currencies validated and supported each other higher.

Then as now medical words often had Latin roots but in this case the Latin root reaches further back to Greek.

Indonesia then as now was the most populous Muslim-majority nation in the world.

Their main competitors, then as now, are a handful of tiny vineyards in Burgundy.

Then, as now, women wearing the pants in public were 'profoundly ridiculed, ' Ms. Fischer says.

Back then, as now, media bosses often bowed to state pressure to protect their business interests.

Then, as now, we are seeing great concentrations of wealth, especially at the top.

Then, as now, banks collapsed and credit for businesses and consumers became scarce.

Then, as now, the dollar was the chief victim.

Then as now the scale of the problem determines the scale of the required response.

Most Americans, remember, then (as now) were fed up with overseas commitments.

Then as now, the people who lived along the river bank provided services to the users and collected revenues.

THEN, as now, the economy was depressed and America was deporting Mexicans in droves.

Tunisia and Egypt, where constitutional reform had sunk roots by the 1860s, were pioneers then as now.

Then, as now, the advance of relatively risky assets has been uniform, and undiscriminating.

Then, as now, the materials state, the chief problem was overpopulation.

Then as now, they hoped to minimise the services while maximising the revenues.

Then, as now, it began with Buddhist monks protesting and shouting slogans.

Then, as now, there were huge stock market swings, up as well as down.

Then, as now, an obsession with market share led companies to expand too rapidly.

Then, as now, rulers used history to shape the present, a leitmotif that has marked almost every era.

Then, as now, the decline of educational standards was hotly debated.

Then as now, people-free wilderness existed mostly in deserts and tundra.

The response to distraction, then as now, was social structure.

Consumer Reports found that then, as now, the bumpers fixed the problem.

Then, as now, the crisis was global from the outset and called for global fixing.

Then as now, people urged intervention.

Then, as now, I was eternally puzzled over how people think, by what process they solve lifes riddles.

I had intended then , as now , to make Watts my home .

Then, as now, there were concerns about what a growing China meant to America and the world.

Then, as now, the argument is about American military activity in China's vicinity.

Even those who managed to sleep despite itching skins would then, as now, be kept awake by snoring, whether their own or others in the room.

Then as now, these are fancy findings and artful blends of culture and myth.

I disagreed then as now with many of Smith's judgements.

Then, as now, many people lost their homes because they could not pay their mortgage loans.