Italy is now planning to discontinue the rescue service next month, when the EU border force Frontex is supposed to take over.
"After deep reflection and consultation with those close to me, I now have decided to seek leave to discontinue my federal court action against Peter Slipper.
Dr King refuses to discontinue the crusade.
This variability of outcome helps explain why so many employers have been keen to discontinue defined benefit (DB) plans; under such schemes, they were required to make up any shortfall.Another way of illustrating the problem comes in a paper from GMO, a fund-management company.
They could put AIDS-sufferers on anti-retroviral therapies, but only if they are willing to discontinue treatment once the money stops.
One small insurer failed, the state-run home-insurance fund of last resort was plunged into crisis, and Allstate, America's second-largest P&C insurer, decided to discontinue writing such policies in Florida.
It criticised the high cost of marketing and fund management loaded on to personal pensions in the first few years of operation, penalising people who discontinue their pension, and found (despite recent improvements) that workers leaving occupational schemes early by, say, getting a new job can lose a lot.
Richard Neale of Business Objects, a software company based in San Jose, California, tells the story of a British supermarket that was about to discontinue a line of expensive French cheeses which were not selling well.
The announcement comes on the heels of the school's decision to discontinue the EMBA it offered jointly with the University of California, Berkeley.
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.3%.Falling volumesIn a move hailed as a triumph by the digerati but deplored by bibliophiles, the publishers of "Encyclopaedia Britannica" decided to discontinue the printed edition of the 32-volume tome in order to focus on the online and digital versions.
At the end of August, 3M said it would cut its 75,000-strong workforce by 6% and discontinue some of its 50,000 products.
