If he were annoyed by southern criticism, he might call the whole thing off.

ECONOMIST: The Koreas

It ended, you may recall, with the line "Let's call the whole thing off!"

BBC: Cuts - Mind your language

BJP's failure to stop an investigation into the Taj Mahal projects seems to have led Miss Mayawati to call the whole thing off.

ECONOMIST: Political turmoil in India's largest state

Once German intransigence became clear - as it did overnight (see my post of yesterday evening) - EADS and BAE had no option but to call the whole thing off.

BBC: How Germany killed the merger of BAE and EADS

Many Europeans are ready to call the whole thing off.

FORBES: The Italians And The Greeks Look A Little Like The Americans

Whether the two simply call the whole thing off or become a single unified company, Vodafone and Verizon could be "resolving" their relationship very soon according to Bloomberg.

ENGADGET: Bloomberg: Verizon seeking to end Vodafone partnership through merger or buyout

Even if we detected they were funnelling more to group A than Groups B and C and D that we favoured, we'd either have to call the whole thing off or keep lecturing them but I mean we didn't have full control over what happened to these things once they crossed the border into Afghanistan as to which tribe got which.

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