But the success of the Silicon Valley Start-Up Common (SVSC) may contain the seeds of its own demise.

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Men as varied as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ernest Hemingway, Steve Jobs, Rudyard Kipling, and Mark Twain were all recipients of the news of their own demise.

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The week began with another record high for copper and the suggestion, from an unlikely source, that the Federal Reserve may be sowing the seeds of its own demise.

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How many good businessman brought on their own demise?

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Now at age 63, he is doing all he can to ensure its survival long after his own demise ceding more responsibility and selling ownership stakes in his firm to his employees and clients.

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The American middle class is falling into obscurity with nary a wimper, lost in its own self interest and unable to work together as a single force, making us mostly to blame for our own demise.

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Its success led to its own demise.

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If that happens, it will be a leading indicator of his own political demise.

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It does live on in the form of numerous links from elsewhere, including from other government agencies whose own websites do not seem to have registered its demise.

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Communications manager John Drake had a lot to say on the official Rock Band forum about the demise of Guitar Hero, and future of his own franchise.

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Since the demise of the brilliant amateurs who sleuthed for their own entertainment at the beginning of the last century, diabolical poisoners with complex motives have been strictly police work.

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In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a familiar refrain echoed throughout economic discussions: The U.S. consumer is dead, the pundits said, and his and her demise means the economy has one foot in its own grave.

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As we contemplate the potential demise of the U.S. Post Office, our own office or den may be where we get our magazines in the not-too-distant future.

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