1.   His abrupt departure left her close to collapse.

2.   THE UGLY industrial dispute at Timex entered a new chapter yesterday with the abrupt departure of company president Peter Hall.

3.   American Airlines executives decline to comment on their short-lived management stint or their abrupt departure.

4.   An abrupt departure might be more difficult for students and teachers at the public charter schools that Edison runs, which are often independent of any district.

5.   And he has survived a drawn-out battle with regulators in the United States and the abrupt departures in the last two years of three senior executives.

6.   At a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday, Fujimori apologized for his abrupt departure but would not say if or when he would return home.

7.   Benezra was a favorite candidate from the start of the national search launched after the abrupt departure of former director David Ross in August.

8.   Abrupt departure proved to be a wrenching experience for all fleeing Cubans, but arguably less so for Jewish Cubans who had planted roots on Cuban soil relatively recently.