"We wandered around for a while, " recalls Richard Belluzzo, who quit recently as Microsoft's president and oversaw MSN and the XBox games division.

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According to Reed, fewer than 8, 000 people created a free account just to watch House of Cards and then quit, while the just-released Hemlock Grove is reportedly doing well with young adults.

ENGADGET

Comments by the Sky Sports presenters about assistant referee Sian Massey sparked a furore which led to Gray being sacked, while Keys later quit.

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While a number of other real-time search start-ups quit the consumer-facing real-time search business, such as OneRiot and Collecta, Topsy has kept its consumer-facing site.

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While many people start playing a social game but later get bored and quit after a few weeks or maybe months, Meteor Games is designing its games to have much more content, narrative and strategy so that people will play for 12 to 24 months.

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He came close to losing Mr Davis's successor, Theresa May, while the party treasurer, Sir Stanley Kalms, an electrical retailing tycoon, quit a few months later.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

The point of Break Out, other than to force the uncommitted to panic and quit, is to simulate a chaotic environment, and teach the class how to remain focused and calm while relying on each other, despite the most miserable and stressful conditions.

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