The move brings a Japanese road-car manufacturer back into F1 for the first time since Toyota quit at the end of the 2009 season - which followed Honda's withdrawal a year earlier.
Enlightened public health experts in the region, and elsewhere, had hoped that the new TPD would ease these restrictions, given the clear evidence of its efficacy in reducing the harm of tobacco, while the approved products for helping smokers quit fail over 90 percent of the time.
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The writing has been on the wall for TNK-BP since this time last year, when one of the AAR billionaires quit his role as CEO of the venture and declared that the relationship with BP had run its course.
In the fall of 1993, at the peak of his athletic abilities, three-time NBA finals MVP Michael Jordan quit the Chicago Bulls to join a minor league baseball farm team in Birmingham, Alabama.
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So they make do with storing contacts and inventories in the heads of managers who might quit at any time.
It's Tracy Austin, who quit for the first time at the age of 20 in 1983, before making a comeback.
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.
In 1934, at the height of his financial power, Loomis quit Wall Street to pursue science full time.
In 1997 Yera's obsession finally got the better of him, and he quit his engineering job to become a full-time fishing guide.
"It's one of those things where you just want to quit, but at the same time you don't want to lose so you're not going to quit, " Moss said.
At the end of 2001 Ed quit Fidelity and moved to Florida as well to work full-time on their growing collection of houses.
Tantalized by genomics, Mr. Zhao quit school and began to work full-time at BGI, one of the biggest genomics research centers in the world.
The long days didn't give him time to sulk about his decision to quit coaching, but he went back to Dartmouth for the first game of its 1984 season.
"I've already done so much of the leg work, " reasons Aaron, who has more time to spend on financial chores since she quit her grueling Manhattan commute to work in her husband's business.
The Fertittas say it is this rule, and the fighter's ability to quit at any time, that makes mixed martial arts safer than boxing because it limits the number of blows a fighter takes.
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