• Do we stick with 'two degrees' or abandon it?

    BBC: What message, and whose, from Copenhagen?

  • But HP, a company synonymous with the birth of Silicon Valley, and Compaq Computer, a Houston-based firm which once pioneered PC price-cutting, may yet have to restructure their deal or abandon it entirely.

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  • By asking him to contribute, we're vesting our hopes in the entrepreneurial model of getting things done--by making the time capsule one individual's personal project, they'll be less likely to forget about it or abandon it.

    FORBES: E-Mail Time Capsule

  • The reality is employers unable to hire or transfer an individual in a given location are likely to abandon the work or have it performed elsewhere, most likely abroad.

    FORBES: Over-Regulated America

  • In addition, some Caribbean countries such as Jamaica and Trinidad remain determined to retain it despite international pressure to abandon it or restrict its use.

    ECONOMIST: The cruel and ever more unusual punishment

  • It is not clear, he said, whether the review will formally abandon the policy or simply ignore it.

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  • Some funds, especially those with their own trading operations or brokerage policies, find it offensive when managers attempt to persuade them to abandon the brokerage policies or programs they have established and allow the manager to use an affiliated broker instead.

    FORBES: Pensions and Brokerage: The Brokerage Battlefield Revisited (October 1, 2000)

  • Workers, consumers and shopkeepers will abandon it in favor of electronic pounds or dollars transmitted from overseas.

    FORBES: Where Greed Is Good

  • The more Americans abandon it to go mobile-only or make phone calls over the internet, the more fragile it becomes: its high fixed costs have to be spread over ever fewer subscribers.

    ECONOMIST: The decline of the landline

  • We are much more ready to abandon or sell a technology in clean tech today if it fails to be highly differentiated because one has to anticipate a continuing negative clean tech funding environment that will limit the ability to raise equity financing for these companies in the future.

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  • It is unthinkable that a Sulzberger or Graham could abandon the family newspaper without enduring the disdain of their class.

    ECONOMIST: American press

  • To reach our full potential it is not necessary or even advisable that we abandon the world, but I can guarantee that the more energy you apply to freeing yourself the more creative you will become in business and in life.

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  • "Never use it as an excuse to give up your goal or abandon your resolution, " he said.

    CNN: How to recharge your New Year's resolution

  • Or it could mean that EchoStar would be well advised to abandon Hughes, pay its breakup fee and continue on its own.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "I was not in any meetings yesterday that it was concluded or said that we were going to abandon tax relief for this year, " said Watts.

    CNN: By Dana Bash/

  • The IMF said this week that it did not believe that either Estonia or Lithuania needed to abandon their currency boards.

    ECONOMIST: Latvia has chosen economic torture over complete collapse

  • We all have the same 168 hours per week -- a number few people contemplate even as they talk about "24-7" with abandon -- but since time passes whether we acknowledge it or not, we seldom think through exactly how we're spending our hours.

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  • First, many transporters enjoy a natural or state-granted monopoly and need to be restrained from exercising it with too much abandon.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Whatever Mr Prescott says, Mr Brown, who freed the Bank of England and famously married prudence, sees himself as an inventor of New Labour economics and will not lightly abandon either the economic respectability that this has earned for the government, or the personal reputation it has earned for him.

    ECONOMIST: Politics

  • This does not mean GigaSpaces will abandon the platform-independent version of its software, but it does mean encouraging new customers--or existing customers launching new projects--to consider Cisco UCS as a platform with significant advantages for grid or cloud-style applications.

    FORBES

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