And in cyberspace, there's the annual ritual Drop of the Giant Pi.

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If Microsoft were to drop its offer, the software giant's shares would pop, and Yahoo!'

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It will travel through 1, 019 cities, towns and villages, on foot or in convoy, and drop in at UK landmarks like the Giant's Causeway and Stonehenge.

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Meanwhile, Zyprexa, the top seller for giant Eli Lilly, has seen its annual sales drop slowly in recent years as competitors such as Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Geodon and Abilify, from Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ), have boasted that they cause less weight gain.

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Carrefour hit the brakes on a costly revamp of the French retail giant's biggest stores in the wake of a drop in profit for 2011, underscoring the challenges the new chief executive will face when he starts later this year.

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Wall Street analysts were doubtful that Wednesday's drop-dead date for interested suitors of media giant Tribune Co. (nyse: TRB - news - people ) would result in any premium bids for the company, if it's sold at all.

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Over the past year, the Korean electronics giant weathered a radical management shakeup and watched its global market share drop further into the single digits.

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Mortgage financing giant Freddie Mac says proceeds from cash-out refinancings are set to drop 40% this spring compared with the volume last spring.

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The denizens of the island also drop dinosaur battle pets and the key item of the isle, Giant Dinosaur Bones .

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Andrews Square, senior managers sweated the details in marathon sessions, telling Goodwin that he had no choice but to drop RBS' smaller, simpler IT system into the Nat West's giant network--that was the way big IT mergers were done.

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