In an effort to monetize the concept, Mason dropped-out of graduate school and started working on Groupon as a side project before dedicating his full time to the site in the fall of 2008.
James Freyn, the narrator, is 106, a dropped-out philosophiser, reminiscing into Cowley's tape-recorder about a trip he made in his 20s into the interior of a god-forsaken British colony in South America, to collect two horses from a French-Swiss religious nutter worshipped by robotically obedient natives.
While Romney remains short of the delegates needed to claim the Republican presidential nomination, his closest pursuer -- conservative challenger Rick Santorum -- dropped out of the race this week and the two other contenders -- former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul -- have no realistic chance of winning.
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Since then Space.com has dropped its worn-out suffix and boosted its prospects.
After former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney -- who had campaigned as the conservative alternative to McCain -- dropped out of the race last week, McCain tried to reassure conservative activists with a speech to their annual conference in Washington, promising to consult them on major decisions if elected president.
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With boyish good-looks and a rebel's cred (he dropped out of high-school and races rally cars) he's become one of China's more popular and recognizable bloggers, where the Internet is an increasingly popular forum for self-expression.
Last week Britain's Eastern Energy withdrew from the bidding for a regional utility after its German co-bidder dropped out.
Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing dropped out of school at age 15, after his father died, to work in a factory.
Disinterested with learning in the classroom, Assou-Ekotto dropped out of school at the age of 16 to pursue his sporting ambition.
In amongst all the excitement of the maximum break, people will probably forget that Mark Williams - who lost to Ronnie in that match - has dropped out of the world's top 16 now.
Scott went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but dropped out to start a Web advertising firm that he later sold to Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
Mr. Sen, 23, is a part-time driver who dropped out of school after ninth grade to work at a car-repair shop.
As if the challenge of pulling a 320-ton boat wasn't enough to deal with, the production was plagued by heavy rains, casting problems -- lead actor Jason Robards had to be replaced by Klaus Kinski due to illness, while Mick Jagger dropped out due to a Rolling Stones concert -- and a border war that broke out between Peru and Ecuador.
Ferguson was also delighted with the performance of Wayne Rooney, who took the captain's armband after Ryan Giggs dropped out of the starting line-up through illness and Gary Neville was ruled out because of injury.
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Soon enough, Branson persuaded his parents to pursue his startup full-time and dropped out of high school.
In one survey, 23 percent of Indian school-age girls dropped out of school when they reached puberty.
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In 1997, students in grades 10 to 12 from low-income families dropped out at an annual rate of 12.3 percent.
Families are smaller, birthrates have dropped, divorce and out-of-wedlock births have soared.
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Scott went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but dropped out to start a Web advertising firm that he later sold to Microsoft.
Wesley Clark dropped out last week -- has said that he wants the rest of the field to clear the way for a showdown between him and Kerry.
His original idea for a common European bank bail-out fund was dropped in the face of German resistance to being seen to pay for others.
Mr Kirchner came second in the first round of the 2003 presidential vote and won by default when ex-President Carlos Menem dropped out of the second round.
Just this week, in the marina at California's Lake Elsinore, he happened to pass a "very old" '77 Omega boat with a chromed-out Edelbrock motor dropped in the back.
When he was 19 years old, Grady worshipped Michael Milken and his junk-debt revolution and dropped out of New York's Pace University with dreams of shaking up the venture capital business.
K-J long ago dropped out of the main trade group, the Wine Institute, and Jackson grouses that if all the extended Gallo family ties are figured in, the clan accounts for most of U.S. wine production.
Car registrations in Greece - which has been bailed out twice and is in deep recession - dropped 40.1% from 2011.
He dropped out of international contention in 1994 and suffered from a high-profile falling out with Bertie Vogts, but forced his way back at the age of 37 with a series of impressive performances for Bayern.
Moreover, these dropouts take jobs away from the even lower-skilled teenagers who had dropped out earlier.
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