Despite an abortive bid to buy Palm from 3Com last year, Mr Jobs affects unconcern.
Mr Rakowski's career fizzled out, fittingly, in an abortive bid for the Polish senate in 2005.
But correspondents said the abortive ballot had only served to further damage the party, highlighting bitter divisions.
Why did she give covering fire during an abortive robbery of a Los Angeles shop that sold sportswear?
In 1986 one of the plotters who mounted abortive coups against President Aquino had himself declared president there.
First the world's biggest funeral chains exhausted themselves with an abortive takeover battle.
In April 1996, General Oviedo staged an abortive mutiny when Mr Wasmosy ordered his sacking as Paraguay's army commander.
Last year, it made an abortive attempt to rescue Telecom Italia, Italy's former monopolist, from the clutches of Olivetti.
After yet another abortive United Nations peace initiative, Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said recently he feared the country might bleed to death.
To that end they convened last week's abortive peace talks, attended by the leaders of Nigeria, South Africa and the countries neighbouring Liberia.
Mulholland cites an abortive attempt by a French newspaper to let machines loose on creating English versions of its pages, replete with mangled headlines.
There is no guarantee the deal will go through as of yet, and US Airways has at least two abortive merger attempts in its past.
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Dr Williams has consistently supported the ordination of women, and attracted criticism over his handling of the abortive appointment of an openly-gay bishop in Reading.
Both Syriza and New Democracy picked up 20 seats over their showings in the abortive May 6 vote, while Pasok fell from 41 seats to 33.
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Unfortunately, experience suggests the most likely outcome is yet more blundering in and out of ceasefires and abortive peace deals, while the region remains in grinding poverty.
We don't know the cost of the abortive trip yet but Labour MP Chris Bryant has said the decision to recall Mr Jones was a waste of money.
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Up till now, such insubordination has usually been kept in check: witness the abortive attempt a few years ago by Sverdlovsk's governor to launch his region's own currency.
The "abortive sorrows and short-winded elations" to which Fitzgerald refers in the opening quote account to most, if not all, of America's transient aspirations, practically from the country's inception.
Deutsche Telekom's abortive bid for Telecom Italia, and especially the failure of the German firm's boss, Ron Sommer, to give his partners any warning of his plans, soured the atmosphere.
In early 1998, as more bombs were found, and after an abortive attempt to filter out the ammunition, the navy abandoned the beach-replenishment project, dumping the sand into the sea instead.
In 1993, in the abortive U.S. mission to end a famine in Somalia, Somali rebels and Army Rangers in Mogadishu engaged in an 18-hour firefight in which 18 U.S. soldiers were killed.
They follow an abortive July attempt by Morsy to recall the parliament that the generals ordered dissolved in late June, a challenge to military authority that was halted by Egypt's highest court.
Gilliam, who is still searching for funding for his abortive Don Quixote project which was called off in 2001 following a string of on-set catastrophes, has called The Brothers Grimm "his commercial film".
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It was only when the Administration was facing virulent criticism for its inability to define and deliver a coherent U.S. policy toward Bosnia, culminating in the abortive five-power "joint action plan, " that the public relations program was put back into gear.
But a lack of popular recognition, combined with the increasing fragility of his health, led Syd Barrett to abandon the music industry altogether and, despite a couple of abortive attempts to re-ignite his career, Barrett remained, for more than 30 years, British rock music's greatest recluse.
Viktor Alksnis, one of the most prominent spokesmen for the Soviet old guard and leader of the Soyuz faction of the Supreme Soviet Parliament, became the latest in a series of prominent authorities on Kremlin intrigues to speculate openly that Mikhail Gorbachev may have been involved in orchestrating the recent abortive coup.
From the introduction of user-friendly labels like "My Computer, " through the abortive "Microsoft Bob" project (an attempt to build an extra, easy-to-understand layer on top of Windows -- an interface for an interface, if you will), the software giant has been waging a war to get the geekiness out of its operating system.
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