That said, Facebook has too much potential to completely abandon the position too soon.

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But with all that came the sad realization that, alas, I had to completely abandon my dream of ever becoming president.

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According to video game tracking firm The NPD Group, 2K Sports sold 200, 000 copies of its game for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 in the U.S. and decided to abandon the college sport completely the next year.

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If the Kurds had autonomy, their urge to break off completely from Turkey would be scarcely stronger than that of the Basques or Scots wanting to abandon Spain or Britain.

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