Late yesterday the Indianapolis HMO giant WellPoint bid adieu to two more senior executives.

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So tweet that ish and we'll all bid adieu to le hashtag.

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And Wednesday night saw the sport bid adieu to one of the greatest duos in its history: the U.S. team of Kerri Walsh Jennings, and Misty May-Treanor.

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If only we could really bid adieu to all voyeurs.

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For devotees, it will signal a fond and snuffling farewell, as they bid adieu to a vast parade of clones, Ewoks, Darths, tragic hair styles, noble knights, and strangely fastidious androids.

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This month it announced plans to lay off another 120, 000 workers by 2015, having already bidden adieu to some 110, 000 over the past four years (for a total of about 560, 000 now).

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With Gehry, we get to wave adieu to what Tom Wolfe memorably called the "Rue De Regret" of International Style German workers' cubes and replace our yawns with a little shock and awe.

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The Atlanta Braves, who had a solid jump last season as they showcased rookie Jason Heyward and bid adieu to longtime manager Bobby Cox, are down over 2, 900 fans a game this season, to an average of 26, 712.

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Inking a productive veteran to a long-term contract that figures to take him past his prime is a risk many clubs have taken under pressure to win (though some showed signs of reining in the practice during the 2009 recession--the Yankees bidding adieu to 36-year-old Johnny Damon, for instance).

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Kicking off the new year in style will be Pavilion desktops featuring a choice between ATI's Radeon HD 5350 (code named Evora Cedar), which will have HDMI, DVI and VGA ports along with 1GB of onboard memory, or the juicier Radeon HD 5570 (aka Jaguar), which bids adieu to VGA in favor of DisplayPort and bumps up the memory allowance to 2GB.

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Still, it would be wildly premature to bid Exxon adieu.

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Many forecasters expect the Japanese currency to remain low for the remainder of this year, bidding adieu around the 88.0 mark in Q4.

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