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Widely praised when it launched, and then progressively pooh-poohed including by me as the wrong solution, more recently praised once more for the execution of the underlying idea, and finally put in doubt following Intel's rather suspect ship-jumping.
OLPC XO-1 Exposed glyn moody 2008
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Anyone including in the pundit and political classes who supported this presidency and the Bush movement -- regardless of which specific policies motivated that support -- are all to blame for what this administration has done to our country, and it's important not to allow these last-minute, ship-jumping conversions to obscure just how pervasive and widespread the culpability is.
Archive 2006-10-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006
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Anyone including in the pundit and political classes who supported this presidency and the Bush movement -- regardless of which specific policies motivated that support -- are all to blame for what this administration has done to our country, and it's important not to allow these last-minute, ship-jumping conversions to obscure just how pervasive and widespread the culpability is.
The President's vow today to stay in Iraq Glenn Greenwald 2006
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We get these ship-jumping starmen all the time up here; they never do get work cards, it seems.
Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg
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But Specter's real mistake was in the timing of his ship-jumping.
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But Specter's real mistake was in the timing of his ship-jumping.
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Wildly, another ship-jumping movement is occurring on Wall Street wherein instead of finding homes at boutique banks, hedge funds, or in the land of those who've already made enough to just retire now, people are making the leap to the unemployment line 'cause they've been fired and can't find placement elsewhere in the financial services industry.
Dealbreaker 2009
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But Specter's real mistake was in the timing of his ship-jumping.
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In a business notorious for opportunistic ship-jumping, our average tenure in the agency is about five years.
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But Specter's real mistake was in the timing of his ship-jumping.
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