The resounding merger between AOL and Times-Warner ended in failure of the alliance and the decline of AOL in a very short period of only two yea rs or so.

曾轰动一时的美国在线同时代华纳的合并，只经过短短的两年多时间，就演变成联盟失败和美国在线衰落的结局。

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There were times when Warner wondered if anyone had ever quit in the first year.

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His battles have ranged from the famed lifelong rivalry with fellow Aussie and one-time partner Kerry Packer to fierce competition with The New York Times, Time Warner Cable and most recently Google (in an interview last year with Sky News Australia, he threatened to remove stories from the search engine so readers would pay for content).

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But in the New York Times, introvert author Judith Warner argues that a "more quiet argument" would have been much more effective.

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