But in this day and age, that is a sure-fire way to lapse into mediocrity.
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Last May Apollo let U.S. household goods retailer Linens 'n Things lapse into bankruptcy.
The temptation is strong to take to a lounger and lapse into basking-iguana consciousness.
Yet, although Mr Bush cannot ignore big steel, he need not lapse into protection.
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But those with severe diabetes, or who often lapse into comas could benefit.
The main risk to Ms Merkel is that she could lapse into irrelevance.
Throw in an unexpected dunking in a cold mountain stream and a competitor can lapse into uncontrollable shivering and incoherence.
But King Abdullah's vigorous start won attention for Jordan's economic straits, allaying fears that, bereft of King Hussein, the country would lapse into obscurity.
Even the occasional lapse into violence, such as a blockade of the Catalan parliament on June 15th, has done little to dent their popularity.
Or did chairman Burton think that whenever White House people discuss that golden Asian connection to the Clinton-Gore campaign, they lapse into Pidgin English, reminiscent of the language that G.
What he means is sharply expressed in his warning to young people not to lapse into dependency but to work to improve their skills, to avoid crime, sloth and disorderly conduct.
Unlike many analysts who tend to lapse into empty corporate-speak (echoing the managers they cover), Adelman writes and speaks in clear, fact-laced phrases that ably convey nuances in court cases and subtle market shifts.
His main purpose was to make America feel good about itself, and to make it see itself as the sort of nation that wouldn't lapse into fear in the face of such an attack.
Other nights, he would fall asleep between his two gauchos and dream that his wife was leading their children by the hand and scolding him for the way he had let himself lapse into brutishness.
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There are times when the commission in particular seems to regard good administrative behaviour as something into which it might lapse only by miscalculation.
This combination of pressures forced her into a second's lapse when she scribbled her name on the form.
The recent exodus after the price hike and momentary lapse of judgment in almost splitting the site into two may have the greatest impact this quarter.
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Now we're throwing in another Kickstarter project into the mix, a motion time-lapse gadget called the Radian.
Standout pieces include a series of faux pre-Columbian clay sculptures featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse and other Disney characters by Nadin Ospina and a time-lapse video by Juan Manuel Echavarria documenting the decay of a fine porcelain plate into a pile of white powder that looks suspiciously like cocaine.
Time-lapse camera technology allowed the filmmakers to condense a year's worth of seasonal changes into a seamless 30-second shot.
If your premiums are too high to manage because of the extras that have somehow found their way into your policy, you will be much more apt to allow it to lapse.
But it was a serious defensive lapse that nearly let the Rams in as a sloppy back pass from Keane was intercepted and fed into Christie, only for the striker to hit the keeper with the goal at his mercy.
If the IRS follows the same rule for event-type CVRs, the issuer recognizes no gain or loss on the CVR issuance, the repurchase of the CVR, or the lapse of the CVR, but a target shareholder generally must recognize an immediate capital gain or loss taking into consideration the fair market value of the CVRs received on the date of distribution.
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