It is unthinkable that a Sulzberger or Graham could abandon the family newspaper without enduring the disdain of their class.

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Beer says he's not looking to abandon his family's citrus business.

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Daimler-Benz has been spared the embarrassment of making a decision to abandon the Family Car China, on which it spent tens of millions of dollars building a prototype.

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Will they abandon another and reduce the family's shareholdings in Fiat?

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But both she and her sister, who trained in London in physical education, had to abandon any future career to help run the family home after the death of their mother.

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So Mulally is mystified that his predecessors at Ford decided to abandon the Taurus nameplate when developing the company's new family sedan.

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For many who have who always celebrated holidays with warmth and abandon, there's a raw and tender spot where a departed family member used to be.

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In another Damascus neighborhood, I met a family of four that had just arrived from Baghdad after receiving a warning from insurgents to abandon their house.

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