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The theory was largely shelved for two thousand years until several physicists produced theories which led to the fact that the atom could be split.
The Israeli weekly Jerusalem Report claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had recently considered putting into operation a secret plan to murder Hussein that was drawn up, then shelved, in 1991.
According to Tally, Cubist produced daptomycin, approved in September 2003, by licensing it from Eli Lilly, which shelved the new compound after concluding its potential market was only $250 million.
Russia has shelved its longstanding plan to switch to a volunteer army because it can't pay enough to recruit soldiers.
The big cable companies--balking at the costs of converting one-way cable to two-way voice lines--have shelved plans to get into the local phone business.