He had to hurt many players by dropping, selling and discarding them over those years but it provides its own tribute that so few ever resent it.
In reality, however, many investors get panicked when the market drops, selling out at low prices, and then feel better after prices rebound, buying back in when prices are higher.
Despite the Obama administration's entreaties, China will continue to peg the yuan to the dollar — when the dollar drops, selling yuan in the foreign-exchange market and adding to its pile of foreign assets in order to maintain the yuan's fixed relation to the dollar.
With telling ambivalence, Brooklyn Vegan, the widely read, indie-loving music blog, recently started a column, "This Week in Music Licensing: It's Not Selling Out Anymore," but soon dropped the "selling out" half of the title.
When Pertec tried to prevent Gates' new company, Micro-Soft (the hyphen was soon dropped), from selling its version of BASIC to other companies and stopped paying royalties, Gates sued Pertec.
After the first week, sales dropped dramatically, selling only 28,000 units the following week.
Although he claimed to be on the dean's list there, he said he had dropped out, sold his two cars, gave away his possessions and traveled to Africa.
It dropped or sold several lines of clothing and closed down the 54 Sigrid Olsen stores.
Like designers who scramble to dress stars for the Oscars because of the exposure it will garner, travel consultants often name-drop when selling a resort.
