It was exactly a year ago, just a few days after more than 300 people drowned off the coast of Lampedusa, that Italy launched the Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) operation to ensure search and rescue of migrants between North Africa and southern Italy.
That wasn't exactly true just a few years ago.
This scalability is exactly what happened in just a few years--in 2011, almost nobody had heard of Uber; by 2016, it's hard to find anyone in a big city who hasn't used the service.
Southwest Airlines did exactly this a few years ago.
The acreage is not exactly sylvan: a few mango trees punctuate a landscape of rock and dust.
You seem to think it's all straightforward, but what exactly does "a few investments and some Premium Bonds" amount to?
That claim was not exactly true: a few years ago, in the course of researching a book about French food culture, I obtained the minutes of a meeting that Michelin officials had with Loiseau, in the fall of 2002.
So, far from being something glamorous, extraordinary, and a slap in the face for Oxford, it is exactly what a few hundred English students will have been offered this year, along with many thousands of Americans.
Which is exactly what a few of the more devoted Jipters and an elite group of other trivia buffs are trying to do -- despite TV network rules that limit individuals to just three game-show appearances every 10 years.
Well, that's exactly what a few blockchain startups are trying to figure out.
