So within less than ten years after his Como lecture Bohr tacitly abandoned "wave-particle complementarity" in favor of the exclusivity of "kinematic-dynamic complementarity" (Held 1994).
Whether this is the strategy Google will take, only Google knows; but after abandoning Buzz and Wave, it is clearly going after Facebook with more and better firepower, by simply buying into or buying better mobile Internet arms suppliers.
"These results are not a reason to abandon T-wave research," said Kyra Schmitt, a spokeswoman for Medtronic.
The BBC has abandoned short-wave broadcasts to Latin America, North America and most of Europe, to the chagrin and despair of some loyal listeners.
This past weekend, my wife, three-year-old daughter and I threw our swim suits and towels into a rental car, cranked the air conditioning and abandoned heat wave-plagued New York City for the northern climes of Vermont, in search of some of the best swimming holes in New England.
In August 1974 Richard Nixon, smiling his jowly smile and waving his "V for victory" wave abandoned the presidency for the sunnier climes of southern California.
But while Peter Robinson told delegates at his annual conference at La Mon Hotel that he's ready to abandon "out-dated dogmas", his party faithful aren't abandoning their old flag waving traditions.
Sarah Palin has no shortage of disapproving adjectives to describe the leaked tapes of Donald Trump bragging about groping women, but the former Alaska governor is not joining the wave of Republicans abandoning the GOP nominee.
Or, in other words, "We are a sunset industry, but three billion quid will postpone for a few years the moment when the last helicopter lifts off from a rusty platform, abandoning it to the toxic waves littered with fish kill".
