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How many cut and run following the 21 years Berkshire’s growth lagged the S&P 500 or the 11 years its value fell?

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

“It may be a collective. It may be a store. There’s no way I can cut and run out of a place that’s so special.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2025

“We’re not going to cut and run at the first sign of trouble,” he says.

From Seattle Times May 17, 2023

Mary Kambo from the Kenya Human Rights Commission says, "We're calling upon the UK market... we're not inviting them to do a cut and run but really to leverage on their position as a market."

From BBC Jun. 9, 2021

And the way she was looking at the guy...Yeah, was it any wonder that he decided it was best to cut and run?

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau




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