His last movements captured on CCTV showed him staggering down a dead end lane leading to wasteland and the river.

BBC: Ben Thompson

They can choose a path that brings them back into the community of nations, or they can continue down a dead end.

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Sure, you may go down another dead end path.

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The key is to learn from the mistakes you made the first time and never head down that same dead end path again.

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If he is wrong, Mr Immelt will have led one of the world's biggest and most powerful companies down a dead-end, and the cost to its reputation, if not its financial performance, is likely to be huge.

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But that approach has led us down a long, dead-end street.

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That's because any more strolls down tobacco road are likely to lead to a dead end.

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