Consider what happened to investors who abandoned their strategic asset allocations in the crisis.
"Billy" Tauzin of Louisiana, who abandoned the Democratic Party for the Republicans in 1995.
Speculators who abandoned the stock market after the tech stock crash in the early 2000s raced into residential real estate.
Moreover, any users who abandoned Windows would have to scrap investments in software and training, making the cost of switching prohibitive.
Hmun Hlun Mawii, 27, contracted hiv from her husband, a bus driver who abandoned her in 2006 after a year of marriage.
Only 52% of the merchants who responded to the survey said that a reminder email was sent to customers who abandoned their cart.
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Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who abandoned City Hall when it lost electricity and phone service Tuesday, said he and his staff would return there Monday.
Now, as production slowly recuperates, many producers who abandoned farms and returned, and others who remained, are determined not to put all their beans in one basket.
Heinecke, who abandoned his American passport and became a Thai citizen in 1991, is a rare example of a former American who struck it rich in foreign lands.
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The lean, taut eleven-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret) escapes from a state center in search of his father, who abandoned him a month earlier and left no forwarding address.
The success of a green candidate, Ralph Nader, in taking presidential votes from Al Gore, who abandoned earlier green positions, is surely a signal, particularly of attitudes among the young.
And part of the fund-raising credit goes to Gephardt, who abandoned his own presidential ambitions last year to devote his energy and his own vast national network to the House battle.
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Police have also organised a free recovery service for motorists who abandoned their cars on the A3 on Tuesday night, after snow ploughs pushed snow on to cars and iced up doors and locks.
Where were the cites to studies about the fate of women who abandoned careers for home and family, only to be later abandoned physically and economically by their husbands who found younger more attractive women -- at work.
Others practice in conjunction with doctors, and some are themselves medical doctors who have abandoned reality.
They did find five franchisers who had abandoned arbitration in favor of the courts.
James said it helped make peace with the woman she idolized but who had abandoned her.
To obey Jesus, therefore, you had to join those who were abandoned.
The longtime New Mexico senator is the latest of several Republican stalwarts who have abandoned Bush on Iraq in the past 10 days.
"I am saddened by the actions of those who have abandoned the basic tenets of both American justice and the Olympic movement, " Mankamyer said.
Some historians have argued he was killed for attempting to bring back polytheism after succeeding Akhenaten, who had abandoned Egypt's old gods in favour of monotheism.
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And the way McCain helps, essentially, is he lends his political popularity to the president with those moderates and Independents who have abandoned Bush of late.
Economists don't expect many of the cotton farmers who had abandoned their traditional crop for others like corn to rush back into cotton and drive up the supply.
BB10 may see a better relative success than Nokia who unwittingly abandoned its Symbian base in a jump to Windows while BB10 is looking toward a smoother handover.
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Haile Gebrselassie poses for photographs afterwards with the media, who have abandoned their usual cynicism in favour of unadulterated fawning in front of the greatest distance runner of all time.
In fact, he played a prominent role in the trial of the century, the prosecution of the admirals who had abandoned scores of shipwrecked sailors after the victory at Arginusae.
Frankly, it is hard to imagine what the new version of the OS could do that would spur consumers who have abandoned their BlackBerries for Apple and Android phones to reverse course.
He flipped on the television, to catch up on some news, when he first saw them: a group of rag-tag teenage rebels who had abandoned the city for the country, living out of double-decker buses.
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Cyril, who was abandoned by his father in an orphanage, searches for that parent with a near-feral intensity, trailed first by officials from the institution and then by Samantha, a hairdresser who becomes the boy's weekend guardian.
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