Vasiliev had once kept playing after having what was later determined to be a heart attack.
There were not yet 16 intelligence agencies, much less the post-9/11 directives for them to share information they had once kept "stovepiped," so that others could not get to it.
And suddenly Mr. Bush seemed lassoed to the Congressional leaders whom he had once kept so carefully at a distance, as they thundered on his behalf against the "unelected judges" of Florida who were rendering verdicts about the vote.
"I can close my eyes and see David McIntosh wasting away to nothing," he said, summoning the friend of his who persuaded the L.G.B.T. center on West Thirteenth Street to construct a garden where it had once kept its garbage.
The upstairs rooms — the petits salons — had once kept the restaurant in business: in the nineteenth century, a local regulation made it impossible to prosecute adultery if it occurred in public, and so the rooms provided discreet accommodations for moneyed patrons and their guests.
Many ecologists argued that the deer had once been kept under control by wolves, which had been hunted to extinction by people.
Mr. Meador's death was followed on July 4 by that of his sister, Jane Meador Cook, with whom he had hoped to gain millions of dollars for manuscripts and reliquaries that had once been kept at Quedlinburg cathedral, in central Germany.
And, when Bell was caught on the boundary edge for 81, having once again kept up his record of scoring at least a half century in a Lord's final, it looked like Warwickshire were down and out.
Canalys today published its latest figures tracking PC sales in Q4, and thanks to the strength of the iPad — and Canalys' decision to count tablets as 'PCs' — Apple has once again kept its position at the top, taking 19.5% of all sales, or just under 31 million units.
