For those who worry that some disadvantaged neighbourhoods are being cast adrift from mainstream society, today's JRF report makes troubling reading.

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It is high time that the likes of Daiei, a retailer, Misawa Homes Holdings, a housebuilder, and Sojitz, a trading company, were cast adrift.

ECONOMIST: Swallow hard

Likewise, when Ford bid auf wiedersehen to their German Merkur brand or when Chrysler furled the sails on Plymouth, owners of these vehicles weren't suddenly cast adrift.

CNN: The fate of four GM brands

Once cast adrift at the foot of the table, Zaragoza are now level on 25 points with Sporting Gijon and Racing Santander, who both drew 1-1 away from home on Sunday.

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With the Obama administration refusing to back the anti-regime protesters, and the European Union similarly hemming and hawing, millions of Iranians who are on the streets, risking their lives to protest a stolen election and a tyrannical regime, have been cast adrift by those they thought would support them.

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In an act of disgraceful cowardice, AIPAC not only fired the men, they refused to pay their legal fees and so cast them adrift as millions of dollars in legal bills began piling up.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A cautionary tale

Before I left St Kilda, I cast a bottle adrift with a note of my own.

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