Are they shutting down this operation because they want to make that game themselves someday?
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Bruce Clark believes Ullman could do worse than look to a competitor for guidance on scaling down its retail operation.
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The ECB Governing Council could have shut down the ELA operation using its powers under Article 14 of the ECB statute.
Amazon actually experimented with its own online delivery service in Seattle last year, made plans for a national roll-out, and then promptly shut the whole operation down last March.
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Other initiatives, such as the large-scope Operation Bot Roast -- an active campaign to track down botnets, find operation control centers and the organizations behind them -- have been only partially successful, as several holes remain in the overall infrastructure.
Uniq will shut down its Riviera Desserts operation at Paignton in the autumn of 2009.
It wound down its wholesale mortgage operation, Decision One, in September 2007, and its earnings rose 13% last year.
The raids also shut down a fake PR operation that threatened to post bad reviews of products and services unless it was paid to keep quiet.
The agency had its first big success this year when an important drug dealer was brought down by a sting operation and the novel use of wiretap evidence.
Since returning from Iraq I have suffered nightmares, insomnia, massive swings in mood and general ill health, although I put this down to a shoulder operation that I had undergone.
Its chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, said the bank might be ready to return to the private sector in 2014, following a huge restructuring programme that includes winding down the investment banking operation.
However, first Mr Pastrana enforced the retirement of two army generals accused of collaboration with such groups, and then this week a big police operation shut down a huge drug laboratory run by the paramilitaries, capable of turning out eight tonnes of cocaine a month.
And Mr Sun is scaling down his deposit-taking operation, restricting it now to company workers.
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As that operation began slowing down several years ago, the Internet began to make the headlines.
At the time, police credited the subway operation with driving down crime there.
On Wednesday at 0720 BSTGreat Yarmouth coastguard scaled down its search and rescue operation for the other six passengers and crew.
Bristol East Labour MP Kerry McCarthy urged the council to turn down the application for the operation on the site, close to the Hicks Gate roundabout.
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Police in the area have mounted a major operation to track down the gunman, who is believed to have fled to a nearby gorge taking a citizens band radio with him.
This comes ahead of a Dec. 11-12 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, which will be closely watched by investors to see what the Fed intends to do as the program known as Operation Twist winds down.
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"At King's Cross station there is a rescue operation in the tunnel down on the line, " he said.
This ignores the fact that the upshot of these sales is that the American enterprises acquired by foreign concerns not-infrequently wind up being seen as superfluous to the new owners' core overseas operation and get shut down.
Still, if Mr Abbas has indeed decided to climb down, it will be a precarious operation.
Co-operation would nonetheless quickly break down if individuals could enjoy the advantages of division of labour without making a contribution of their own.
Wing Commander Ken Gatward, who lived in Essex, first flew his Bristol Beaufighter down the Champs-Elysees in the operation to boost French morale.
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In 1999 Johnson launched "Operation Excel, " shutting down 20 factories and selling the Weight Watchers business to better focus on foodstuffs--ketchups, condiments, sauces, canned tuna and jarred and frozen vegetables.
Mexican officials put the successes down to better intelligence and co-operation with America, plus a fivefold increase in the size of the federal police force (counting officers seconded from the army).
The salvage operation at the disaster site wound down on Monday, the first day in which workers didn't find a corpse.
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