The best thing you can about Dell's attempt to compete with Apple 's iPod line is that the experiment ended in August 2006 after a roughly three-year run.

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The best thing you can about Dell's attempt to compete with Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod line is that the experiment ended in August 2006 after a roughly three-year run.

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It ended the experiment because it seemed to be cutting traffic to the site and harming advertising revenue.

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In retrospect, it seems inevitable the Nashville experiment would have ended in recrimination.

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So he ended the experiment and took over the whole portfolio himself.

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The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 put 1, 500 breweries out of business overnight, however, and the industry struggled to recover after the "noble experiment" ended in 1933.

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In particular, this experiment ended once the respondent clicked on the link.

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That ten-year experiment ended when Intel spun off the company at the beginning of the decade.

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And because no human life should be started or ended as the object of an experiment, I ask you to set a high standard for humanity and pass a law against all human cloning.

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Last year's experiment ended with a playoff sweep against the Celtics and a parade of bad body language.

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