Bonds and Anderson had met in middle school, drifted apart in their late teens, and reconnected in 1998, post-McGwire-and-Sosa.

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They had drifted apart, but they are back sharing a political tent.

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But the parties drifted apart over the question of the reinstatement of Justice Chaudhry, who had been sacked by military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf in 2007.

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They would have drifted apart, she suspected, becoming wives and mothers, and if they had ever reunited they would have been too occupied with their earthly duties to let the memory of their scheme surface.

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Around eighteen months after launch, Nokia bought the company, the management team shattered and drifted apart, and Dopplr simply withered and died on the Web 2.0 tree, while the users could do little but watch it stumble and fall.

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It has not been disputed that the Manchester United defender and Ms Storey first met as teenagers in the 1990s and had at one time been close, but had drifted apart even before Mr Ferdinand moved to Leeds in 2000.

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Mr. Loughner drifted further apart from the older friends still around.

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