But Ledsinger looked at his company--then a 3, 039-unit franchisor of Quality Inns, Comfort Inns and other budget names--and decided to stay put.
Franchise value is the ability to exploit the inertia of the customers--their tendency to stay put, whether by dint of habit, technology or contract.
Elsewhere, in Bath and North East Somerset an "overwhelming majority" are choosing to stay put as are one-in-three households in North Somerset, according to figures gathered by local authorities.
Accel Telecom wants to take you back there with the Voyager, an Android smartphone with car-centric functions that can stay put in your vehicle.
Totaling just under 22% of all mortgaged homes in the U.S., many of these upside-down homeowners are choosing to stay put until prices rise enough to restore their properties to positive equity.
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To give a simple example: if two shrewd, competing ice-cream sellers share a long beach, they will set up stalls back-to-back in the middle and stay put, explains Stephen Black, a modeller in the firm's London headquarters.
When trying thigh-length shapers, she lifts each leg knee-high to make sure the garments stay put.
And as long as you don't lift off the throttle in a bend, the car will stay put and, at worst, under-steer slightly right near the edge of sane driving speeds.
McGann carefully laid out a legal blueprint that allows them to re-file a complaint that will almost certainly allow them to move beyond the dismissal phase of the suit and begin questioning their family--McGann even lifted an earlier stay he had put upon Liesel and Matthew's request for discovery.
Westwood's positive hitting, including eight fours in his 58-ball stay, set the tone before Maddy and Clarke put on an unbroken stand of 47 to see their side home and boost their chances of staying up.
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And it's of little comfort to the families who wake up wondering how they're going to pay their bills, stay in their homes, or put food on the table -- the Americans I've met in towns across this country, or whose letters I read every night.
The move freed up some space for the Duke guards and immediately led to six quick points to start the 19-7 run that put the Blue Devils ahead to stay.
But when Texas and Oklahoma decided to stay put, as the conference added West Virginia and regionally-based TCU, and as new conference leadership realized that greater revenue sharing must be attained, this enabled the media market place to feel more secure about the long-term stability of the conference.
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When I became a stay-at-home-mom, I decided it was time to put those stories down on paper.
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Within a couple of weeks of passing along the faxed report from airport security, Alan and I get an email telling us that the ex-husband has decided, in so many words, to stay put.
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Instead, death is modified by ludicrously lengthy appeals (the average stay of execution for state-imposed sentences is now almost nine years) which put off the day of accounting, but do not remove it altogether.
In essence, Lichtenstein claims bad legal advice caused him to put Extended Stay in bankruptcy, a fateful decision that triggered the so-called bad boy provision in the mortgage documents.
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They allow the team to stay put in tiny Green Bay as an emblem of the league's working-class roots.
We're holding out hope that our Pebbles fall within that latter group -- stay tuned for a review just as soon as we've had time to put the device through its paces.
Marc Gasol scored 20 points and hit two free throws with 1:03 left to put Memphis ahead to stay, and the Grizzlies held off Oklahoma City 87-81 Saturday to take a 2-1 lead in this Western Conference semifinal.
That put Sharapova ahead to stay, and she beat fellow Russian Elena Vesnina on a muggy, 85-degree afternoon at the Sony Open, 6-4, 6-2.
Though the picturesque town of Banff and surrounding Banff National Park beckon with world-class skiing, mineral hot springs and countless other nature activities, it's tempting to stay put in the castle, so numerous and luxurious are its offerings.
Helmut Kohl, Germany's chancellor, and Carl-Dieter Spranger, the minister for economic co-operation, visited Almaty in April on separate occasions, and urged Kazakhstan's German community to stay put.
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