Atari got cold feet, and dropped the idea -- and the game -- before completion.
Immediately after, every distributor they had with any business sense got cold feet.
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After taking a look at PAL's books and labor problems, however, the two airlines got cold feet and withdrew their bids.
"I was surprised at how fast my hand got cold, because it didn't seem that cold out there with the sun, " Garland said.
The deal faltered mainly because Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank, which had provided two-thirds of Krupp's DM15 billion war chest, got cold feet.
The wind was whipping the water up into little waves, and very soon we got cold, so we wound our scarves back around our necks.
No wonder the tea in my cup never got cold.
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While Pricewaterhouse gave no reason for its sudden departure, Specialty Foods says the accounting firm got cold feet about the interest deductions the company was taking on its payouts to unitholders.
Temperatures plummeted to the low teens or single digits in spots and people got really cold.
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Then in December 1999 Otari got a cold call from QuantumShift, a small Novato, Calif. firm that manages telecom costs.
Give it up for your former Governor, our great friend, Ted Strickland. (Applause.) Poor Ted has got a cold.
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At one point, Minor acknowledged he got so cold that he had a trainer rub his back, arms and thighs with a heating ointment.
Two days later I got a cold call from a producer at Hoff Productions near San Francisco, who do a lot of stuff for Animal Planet, Discovery, the Speed Network and so on.
One of his first instructions: "It's got to feel cold, " Mr. Reznor recalled.
He immediately got to work cold-calling produce packers in California, Oregon, Washington and Chile known for their interest in new technology.
But as oil prices plunged in the Clinton era, the U.S. abandoned its grand solar experiment, and molten salt technology got shoved into cold storage.
Then everything got sort of cold.
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With Marvell, he admits he got lucky by accepting a cold call from Weili Dai and Sehat Sutardja, who were then unknown.
Still under the influence of the somewhat debilitating effects of eating two Philly Cheesesteaks in a row, I pick up a copy of the latest issue of Forbes from the newsstand, tap and pay, slurp a mouthful of cold Starbucks (got distracted in duty free), and fire up my phone.
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In 1970, a mysterious singer-songwriter in Detroit named Rodriguez released an album called Cold Fact, which got nice notices, but, in the words of a number of bewildered music-biz people connected with the record, did absolutely nothing.
W.A's biggest coup was the way its members got fans to believe they were all cold-hearted gangsters.
The Cardinals then went cold from the field and Smith got hot.
She added that when she knelt down to touch her mother's neck, to see if there was a pulse, she got a shock because she was "as cold as marble".
Cold, yes, but we got very close to a young male marsh harrier, perching on a branch and I shall never forget his imperious glare, feathers golden in the low winter light.
If you look at this deal in the cold light of day you've got to say it's a good deal for us.
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It can be cold, wet and windy and has got poor facilities - all in all, it's very unwelcoming and that's just for Brighton!
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