UNTIL recently, they were rivals.
UNTIL recently, Serbia was an authoritarian state.
These outfits are, however, an expression of an authentic Japanese experience: that of belonging to a society that until recently was extremely ordered and disciplined, but which, over the past decade, has grown more uncertain and unpredictable.
News of Ming Pao's demise has shaken New York's ethnic press industry, which until recently remained extremely robust but, like many other industries, has been buffeted by the nation's economic slowdown in the past few months.
Of course, there have been "silly season" gaffes by both sides -- surprising unforced errors from two campaigns that, up until fairly recently, have been extremely tightly run.
Still, Taiwan's weak economic performance, at least until very recently, has also been extremely painful for some of its residents.
Until very recently, Ebola has been extremely neglected.
Document review (also antiquated and inefficient, but most notably, until very recently conducted largely by extremely costly human labor) is being disrupted by machine learning tools like Diligence Engine and Ebrevia.
Companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants can face fines or criminal charges, but until recently, prosecutions were extremely rare.
