The upcoming 4Q12 results are expected to be disappointing which must make Board members wonder if there is no other path to success.

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The next versions of the iPad, iPhone, iMac and iTunes are no doubt well along the product development path, and no doubt other new things are under way that no one is talking about yet.

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Second, relentless pursuit of GNP to the exclusion of other goals is also no path to happiness.

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No Path of Exile or any other beta-only RPG.

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This official and other participants also said it was a remarkably tense and direct meeting that left no clear path to a compromise.

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The members of the Council reiterated their condemnation of violent and terrorist activities by the Taliban, Al-Qaida and other extremist groups aimed at destabilizing the situation in the country, and reasserted that no terrorist act can reverse the path towards peace, democracy and reconstruction in Afghanistan.

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