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.
Wherever the latest, seemingly abortive, attack was actually aimed, it has also produced alarmingly little Western support.
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.
Some of their most trusted friends backed the abortive late-Bolshevik coup in 1991.
It also records the damage done to the city during the abortive rebellion.
The other big political force, the army, is back in the barracks after its intervention and abortive interregnum in 2007-08.
ThyssenKrupp, Germany's biggest steel maker, held abortive merger talks with Usinor last year, then failed to spin off its steel operation.
After yet another abortive United Nations peace initiative, Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said recently he feared the country might bleed to death.
Not since the abortive Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has Fidel had the means for engaging in nuclear blackmail against this country.
To that end they convened last week's abortive peace talks, attended by the leaders of Nigeria, South Africa and the countries neighbouring Liberia.
The crisis from which Mr Brown has never recovered his abortive flirtation with a snap election in 2007 was caused by his mania for scheming.
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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Two subsequent Russian raids on Georgian territory, one by helicopter gunships, the other with an abortive missile attack, brought an admirably measured and moderate reaction.
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.
With the failure of an abortive campaign to intimidate Slovenia into withdrawing its declaration of independence, forces loyal to Milosevic turned their full terror on Croatia.
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.
Internal divisions surfaced last year when Nokta, a weekly, published excerpts from the diary of a former navy commander in which he described two abortive coup attempts in 2004.
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.
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