old days

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Moffett said that, in the old days, television channels didn’t have to worry about irking customers with rising costs, because that relationship was handled by a middleman — the cable companies.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

"Or when we first started working in the village shop back in the old days, we maybe swapped a few shifts, but in a professional capacity we don't."

From BBC • May 19, 2026

At W, "the idea is to bring back what was once Twitter in the good old days," said founder Anna Zeiter ahead of the Saturday launch.

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

“In the old days, we were a mobility provider. Then people started saying, oh, ‘you’re mobility and food delivery,’” said Alex Hungate, Grab’s president and chief operating officer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Justifiable fury he knew and expected when he had terrorized their pets in the old days; laughter, and sometimes nervousness—but never a crude, uncivilized reception like this.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford