Given how every word for most conference calls is debated and fought for between executive management and attorneys, a simple declaration of error could only be allowed in the presence of demonstrable and continuing success.

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Following this declaration, Rob Pardo, an executive at Blizzard - the firm behind Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft - said that Windows 8 was "not awesome for Blizzard either".

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The crisis constituted by the actions and policies of the Government of Sudan that led to the declaration of a national emergency in Executive Order 13067 of November 3, 1997, and the expansion of that emergency in Executive Order 13400 of April 26, 2006, and with respect to which additional steps were taken in Executive Order 13412 of October 13, 2006, has not been resolved.

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