"Industry activities include continuous remote monitoring of operations, shutting in wells to cease oil and gas production, evaluating midstream facilities (gas transportation and processing facilities) and responding to calls and addressing damage as issues are identified and as conditions improve.
Last week the three publishers agreed to a $69m£44m4m) settlement fund to compensate readers who bought ebooks between 1 April 2010 and 21 May 2012, as well as to cease existing agreements under the so-called agency model, which allowed the publisher rather than the retailer to set the price of ebooks.
But this in itself fails to explain Microsoft's decision to drop pending regulatory complaints against Google in Europe, Brazil and Argentina, as well as to cease funding and participating in lobby groups that it has backed for eight years, such as FairSearch.org and ICOMP, the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace.
In September 2012, USAID, which provided significant and sometimes crucial operational funding for health, human rights, and other important groups, was asked -- well, ordered -- to cease operations in Russia.
The Democratic aspirant, former Representative Maria Cantwell, wants all independent groups that have been advertising on her behalf, as well as the Democratic Party, to cease doing so.
Oppenheimer restrains himself admirably from reminding the reporter that Apple's $146B cash hoard could coast it safely through the next few decades even if it decided to cease manufacturing, well, anything.
Adding 500 µl of culture medium to kidney rudiments that had already been cultured in 85 µl for 1 day of culture caused the kidneys to round up and to cease developing well: they therefore require low volumes continuously, and not just to promote initial settling on the glass.
Two clinics announced they would no longer see patients, and a third said it expected to cease operation as well.
The judge then issued an injunction ordering the bank to cease the practice, as well as a $203 million restitution award.
But switch around the current reality — a hulkingly massive platform attached to a relatively tiny (in resources terms) business operation — and the slavering jabberwocky that Zuckerberg is now on a personal mission to slay might well cease to exist, as multiple messy human challenges get cut down to a more manageable size.
