The strong yen made Japanese goods more expensive to buy in U.S. dollars, forcing many U.S. importers to raise prices or abandon importing from Japan altogether.
Earlier, Lord Patten told the MPs the BBC must not "abandon or resign from investigative journalism" because of the mistakes made by Newsnight.
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.
Guests not keen on paying for an e-book they might have to abandon halfway through can choose from the 15, 000 free titles in Amazon's free e-book collection.
NTL, Britain's biggest cable operator, has had to abandon plans to buy its software from a third company.
For years, commentators have been calling for political leaders to abandon focus groups and instead lead from the front.
If that dilemma were not enough she was getting pressure from her team to abandon her studies in economics and train full-time as a cyclist.
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No Spanish government would agree to abandon its claim to Gibraltar: from that point of view, a deal with Britain would be merely a staging-post on the road to outright sovereignty.
Our position on these talks is clear: They must be led by the Afghan government, and those who want to be a part of a peaceful Afghanistan must break from al Qaeda, abandon violence, and abide by the Afghan constitution.
She saw vivid proof of what so much research has shown: Children raised in orphanages and deprived of consistent, loving attention from adults tend to abandon their own children, fall into lives of crime and become a burden on society, unable to hold a steady job or raise a family.
First, many transporters enjoy a natural or state-granted monopoly and need to be restrained from exercising it with too much abandon.
Instead, they had to re-hire ex-staffers at higher salaries and, in some cases, abandon proven policies of hiring senior managers only from within, says Ms Gardner, who worked for McKinsey at the time.
The intelligence has induced Big Lots to expand consumables and home decor and abandon artificial flowers, to pull Nascar products from the West Coast and to stock four times as much liquid as powder detergent on the East Coast.
Reid had been confident of his plan to give Hearts more of the ball and try to catch them on the break, but patient build-up play from the visitors caused him to abandon his tactics in the second half.
They cannot expect loyalty from a man America is set to abandon in a year.
Mr Saakashvili, who chose the library after being prevented from speaking in parliament, had to abandon the attempt.
Representative HENRY HYDE (Republican, Illinois): Congress was being asked to vote to remove itself from the process almost entirely, and abandon its Constitutional role.
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Roy Worth, from Minehead, Somerset, had to abandon his car because of flooding on the A39 at Billbrook, where the water went up to his knees.
Whatever the undoubted earlier and continued provocations of Colonel Nasser's policies, to invite Egypt to abandon its only tenable line of defence against attack from the east, and Israel to take up positions more than 100 miles inside the Egyptian border, was the act of a partisan rather than a policeman.
Workers, consumers and shopkeepers will abandon it in favor of electronic pounds or dollars transmitted from overseas.
This tremendous wealth stems from the village's decision to basically abandon agriculture for industry, building factories on the farming land.
Scrutiny from the SEC recently caused the company to abandon a much-criticized accounting method that swept its staggering customer-acquisition costs under a rug.
The Tories have also promised to abandon ContactPoint, a huge database designed to track everything from educational details to contact with social services for every child in Britain.
As Fatah radio called on fighters to confront Hamas militants and broadcasts from Hamas fighters urged their Fatah foes to abandon their posts or face death, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appealed in vain for a cease-fire.
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Both Dr Brady and Dr Aguilar have tried to play ulama themselves, but Dr Aguilar says that, although some of his graduate students persevered for longer, the bruises he sustained from the heavy ball caused him quickly to abandon playing the game.
And schools meet little resistance from customers because a private education is painful to abandon part way through.
It is also unclear whether Suncor and Syncrude, two companies which together account for almost half of the output from the oil sands, can be persuaded to abandon voluntarily Crown contracts that entrench their low royalty rate until 2016.
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China's Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on its website that it hopes "relevant parties" in the U.S. would "abandon prejudice, avoid adopting protectionist measures and treat properly investments from China and other countries" with a fair and open attitude.
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Only then can America expect to gather wide support from other countries to isolate Iran and force it to abandon the nuclear path it has chosen.
Russia has said that if the U.S. were to withdraw from the ABM treaty, Moscow would feel compelled to abandon agreements that limit numbers of long-range nuclear weapons.
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