It has also forced the company to abandon its bid to take full control of pay-TV company British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.
To take their advice would be to abandon not only the ground that Romney has worked so hard to stake but also the supporters who stood by him when others questioned his sincerity.
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Shoppers are likely to abandon a line that might take between one and 10 minutes to get through after the first two or three minutes if they feel it isn't moving sufficiently fast enough for them, says Narayan Janakiraman, an assistant professor of marketing at Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.
Independent of the new law, companies were anyway going to abandon many of those grandfathered plans to take up less generous ones.
Ambassador James McGee pointed to calls by President George Bush and the leaders of Britain, France and several African countries for Mugabe to abandon power and let a national unity government take over to help Zimbabwe recover from the health crisis that is spilling across its borders.
The deluge on Monday - which appeared to take the authorities by surprise - saw people sleep in their cars or abandon them as motorways and A roads clogged up.
But, Walsh added, "what I don't understand is that he says he wants to be part of it all, which could be disastrous if you take it at face value, " referring to Benedict's promise not to abandon the church.
Whatever the undoubted earlier and continued provocations of Colonel Nasser's policies, to invite Egypt to abandon its only tenable line of defence against attack from the east, and Israel to take up positions more than 100 miles inside the Egyptian border, was the act of a partisan rather than a policeman.
After his famous "burning platform" memo, he opted to abandon the Symbian operating system, and choose Windows Phone rather than Android as the lifeboat to take Nokia to calmer waters.
But with chatter suggesting Sinn Fein might abandon its century old abstentionist policy of contesting elections to the UK Parliament, but then refusing to take up its seats, I fell to wondering what the effect might be if the party did become active players in Westminster.
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