Delorean died in March, 23 years after his sports car venture bit the dust.
Okay, that last one bit the dust two years ago, but 23 years is a lifetime in Hollywood!
But the consulting firm he co-founded in 1983, Monitor Group, officially bit the dust on November 7.
Two months later, a companion lander bit the dust literally when its rocket engines apparently shut down too early, causing the probe to crash to the ground.
So it was no surprise to hear a report from the kitchen that the little plastic knob on the speed switch had finally bit the dust or flour as the case may be.
The worst of the housing collapse and financial crisis would come later that year and it was still several weeks before Bear Stearns bit the dust and fell into the lap of JPMorgan Chase.
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EV1 and other electric cars bit the dust.
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Alas, all thoughts of successive Grand Slams bit the dust in the biting cold of the Stade de France, but Ireland at least got their championship bid back on track with a stirring win over England.
On the first point, although some tax increases will be needed to shore up fiscal capacity lost when revenue-raising financial services and property deals bit the dust, international experience argues that spending cuts, not tax rises, should bear the brunt.
David Cameron's plans to help those of the over-governed persuasion in a small way by cutting the number of Welsh MPs from 40 to 30 bit the dust this week - and so too, therefore, did any ideas about changing the way Assembly Members are elected.
Phil Shanholtzer, branch chief for the USDA Public Affairs Office, said that most states are holding off on applying for waivers until the dust settles a bit on welfare reform.
An investor who allowed the dust to settle a bit but then purchased stocks exactly one year after the default would have doubled his money in just one year.
Now that the dust is settling a bit on the SCOTUS decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, questions are starting to come in fast and furious (no, not that fast and furious).
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If the thing has been built with components from the Mars Rover, a bit of heat and dust shouldn't faze it.
Men who are comfortable in boots, the dust or the mud, around horses and cattle and a bit disdainful of sidewalks.
No question that some measurements require a bit more interpreting than others, but that does not automatically relegate them to the dust bin of hocus-pocus, as many who lack understanding believe.
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