For example, while 78% of eligible youth planned to vote in 2008, only 51% of them ended up casting a ballot.
Girls send photos into a local or national modeling agency (only a Polaroid is needed) or show up for an open casting call.
Like actors answering a casting call, they hammed it up for Breton's cameras, walking Charlie Chaplin-like in the manner of their antipodal counterparts, the penguin.
Now that they've succeeded, rest assured, this isn't the last we'll see of them (the Real Housewives casting Michaele has sought, though still up in the air, would be only the very beginning).
It is not simply a matter of turning up, swinging a sword or casting a spell.
Though Hollywood agents are loath to admit it, the days of casting two high-budget stars to prop up a film are increasingly rare.
The thought greets Vince Camden as he sits up in bed, frantic, casting around a dark bedroom for proof of his existence and finding only props: nightstand, dresser, ashtray, clock.
Mr. Summers conducted it with epic sweep and passion, digging into the score with increasing fervor as the four-hour performance progressed, making up for some shortcomings in the production and casting with the grandeur of the orchestral sound.
"We wanted to come together in a bipartisan way to make Fox Sunday night rock, " sums up Simpsons executive producer Al Jean of the MacFarlane casting.
"The man was fishing with a lure and he was casting a lure out into the water when the croc came up from under the water and snapped at his hand, " Mr Shean told The Cairns Post.
Such a view is not surprising, given her background: she has worked since 1986 with Bob Monks, one of America's best-known champions of better corporate governance, setting up Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises big institutions on casting proxy votes.
When businessmen from a newly privatised metals factory duly turned up and demanded the gallium, the scientists repelled them by casting doubt on their credentials.
They want Allen to team up with Jim Carrey to play the twins, although they are aware the casting could be a difficult job.
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Casting around for a dissertation topic, the student, Eugene Aserinsky, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across half a mile of paper each night.
She alleges that Amazon-owned IMDb violated privacy and consumer laws by getting her age using personal information she provided when she paid to sign up for a premium IMDbPro account and then posting it for the world (and importantly, casting directors) to see.
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And its latest warning - that global carbon dioxide emissions from energy use rose by 5% during 2010 - is casting a new layer of doubt on the ability of governments to meet the targets they've signed up to on curbing climate change.
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