• These are crustaceans that survive by dragging around a cast-off mollusc shell for protection and shelter.

    ECONOMIST: Nomads at last

  • He cites American Idol cast-off Sanjaya Malakar, who comes in at No. 11 on our list, as example.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Skywire acquires cast-off VC deals and folds them into a single organization that shares marketing, accounting and legal expenses.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The hull looked like it had been patched with everything including cast-off trousers.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Skybreaker'

  • Too many maids are paid largely in kind: table scraps, cast-off clothes and a shack at the bottom of the garden.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa

  • Even worse is the Philippines, whose naval flagship is an American cast-off.

    FORBES: It's Time To End Japan's Defense Dependence On The United States

  • The born-again Gregory brothers worked a financial miracle from cast-off drug brands.

    FORBES: Elan, King Mired In Regulatory Mud

  • The latest move by Larry Ellison, taking in Hewlett-Packard cast-off Mark Hurd, and surely nudging out co-president Charles Phillips is already proving brilliant.

    FORBES: Redundancy In Oracle's Upper Ranks

  • As recently as the 1950s a character called Frank the Frame Burner drove his horse and cart around London collecting cast-off 19th-century gilt frames to melt down.

    FORBES: Features

  • That's why Bragman, who most recently mopped up the mess of Grey's Anatomy cast-off Isaiah Washington, tries very hard to convince his clients that just because they can get press, doesn't mean they should.

    FORBES: Disgraced Celebrity Comebacks

  • So GeneSoft is recycling a cast-off antibiotic.

    FORBES: Bug Wars

  • The winners included some unexpected brands Buick and Jeep, for instance and the big losers included some well-respected Japanese brands, not just the cast-off American brands like Pontiac and Saturn that are headed to the junk heap.

    FORBES: The Surprise Winners (And Losers) In The Fight For A Spot In Your Driveway

  • Stefan is the son of a cast-off diplomat who is sacked from the East German foreign service for a minor misdemeanour just as the Vogel family was about to be posted to New York and escape the dreariness of East Berlin.

    ECONOMIST: New fiction

  • That signalled to the politician's followers that they should cast their run-off vote for Mr Noda, rather than the puppet candidate of Ichiro Ozawa, the party's indicted (and suspended) kingpin.

    ECONOMIST: Japan��s new leader

  • It raises the probability that Russia will get its economy moving this year or next--and with that, cast off some of the confusion and self-pity that have lately made it so difficult a partner for both America and Europe.

    ECONOMIST: Russia: Unequal abroad, punchier at home | The

  • Before the 20, 000-cast event kicks off on 27 July at 21:00 BST, with the tolling of the bell, an Olympic Stadium packed with 80, 000 spectators will be entertained by a pre-show that will start at 12 minutes past eight - 20:12 BST.

    BBC: London 2012: Isles of Wonder theme for Olympic ceremony

  • But it will take a lot longer for the bank to show that it really has cast off its accident-prone ways.

    ECONOMIST: Finance after the crisis

  • Cast members of the off-Broadway musical "Stomp" combine percussion with dancing, so the show needs people with both talents to show up at its auditions in New York.

    NPR: Bang a Can: Auditioning for 'Stomp'

  • He left everything as it was the "robber baron" cast-iron mantle, the off-center arch leading into the living room put up a coat of paint and "camped out" for almost 12 years.

    WSJ: All The Pretty Houses

  • Like many Moscow apartments, it did not look much from the outside - a heavy, grey-steel security door, a scruffy communal entrance hall, a grand old staircase with a cast-iron banister spoiled by multiple layers of shiny, off-blue institutional paint.

    BBC: In Moscow, history is everywhere

  • But why cast off such a hard-won lesson?

    FORBES: Speed Bump

  • "I'm getting tired of catching no fish, " said Robert Strazi, a 23-year-old mackerel enthusiast, as he cast his line in vain off Pensacola Beach's 1, 471-foot fishing pier, flanked by just two other anglers.

    WSJ: Gulf's Fishing-for-Fun Culture Also Takes Hit

  • The image - of the shadow cast by the Moon as it blocks the light and particles - was shown off at a meeting of the American Physical Society.

    BBC: Hawc gamma-ray telescope captures its first image

  • But Buffy creator Joss Whedon is planning a spin-off which may include some original cast members.

    BBC: Sarah Michelle Gellar

  • Last year at CES, IK Multimedia unveiled its iRig Stomp as a foot switch controller for wrangling the outfit's Amplitube software for iOS. Here at NAMM though, the company has cast off the wired connection for the Bluetooth-sporting iRig BlueBoard MIDI foot pedal.

    ENGADGET

  • This is a carrot and stick approach -- in which the carrot may be the lure of an exclusive interview, and the stick is the publicists' insistence that you should cover disturbing half-chair half-woman type films as a trade-off to gain access to the cast of a great one.

    CNN: Behind the red carpet at Cannes

  • Mrs Mallock said she cast the original 12 years ago as a "one-off".

    BBC: Tidworth war memorial statue to be replaced

  • There would be a second round run-off if neither secures 50% of ballots cast.

    BBC: Karzai questions vote fraud panel

  • As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising up around me.

    NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

  • She was cast in a series called Pardon the Expression, a comedy spin-off from Coronation Street, before retiring and then appearing on Coronation Street.

    BBC: Coronation Street actress Betty Driver dies, aged 91

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