More recently, the company was forced to jettison its relationship with Lance Armstrong following the cyclist's spectacular fall from grace.
The festival schedules so many screenings that it is all but impossible to see every film from the main competition unless you jettison everything else (interviews, special events, filing copy, the films in sidebar competitions, sleeping).
Now, as the day of reckoning approaches, he will have to decide whether to placate foreign lenders by agreeing to the terms of another rescue programme – conditions that though painful will keep Greece in the single currency – or jettison the hardliners in his own party.
To jettison a second in the shape of Steffon Armitage, albeit in very different circumstances, would seem more than a little careless.
(One of the major figures who urged him to listen to the mining and business lobby and jettison that promise was the deputy who would later depose him).
The betting this week was on which of his own notoriously disloyal colleagues the prime minister would jettison in order to make way for half-a-dozen Labour people around the cabinet table.
Also inland, copper and gold mines jettison their tailings into the river systems, for which compensation is paid to the poor communities along the riverbanks.People lived in splendid isolation in the highlands until missionaries, miners and kiaps (colonial officials) arrived in the 1920s and 1930s.
Expect stricter immigration rules, and possibly a tougher Dutch policy towards Turkey's EU bid.Mr Wilders may be forced to jettison some of the more discriminatory elements of his platform such as banning the Koran or placing the battle against Islam at the heart of Dutch foreign policy.
But if Microsoft can successfully move its applications on to the.NET platform, it can afford to jettison Windows.
And he alone has shown that he has come to terms with New Labour that he knows which parts of it voters like and which to jettison.
Firms typically provide the main pensions of staff they jettison, as well as lump-sum severance packages.
