"Rather than having to choose between milking decaying assets into oblivion on one hand and indebting itself to undertake massive investment on the other, BT now has the possibility of a more modest third way, capturing cost savings and reinvesting them in a more benevolent regulatory regime to sustain a longer term future as the country's chief network access player.
Racing, who were playing in their first semi-final, built their team through the largesse of their owner, Jacky Lorenzetti, whose millions have taken a club that 20 years ago was one defeat away from oblivion to the Champions Cup final and, from the end of next season, an indoor, 32,000-seat stadium in the La Défense area of Paris.
Pfitzner, on his way to oblivion, produced one great work.
Otherwise you'll be hammering those beans into oblivion one-by-one instead of cramming for your finals.
Yet Drinking to Oblivion was one of the filmmaker's most affecting works, shining a light on debilitating cycles of dependency.
It's behaviour that theoretically means a one-way ticket to oblivion, with no one but diehard fans for company.
"On My Way" managed to fit several important story lines into about 42 minutes, and while I wish they would have trimmed some of the Regionals fat (I mean, does anyone really care about Regionals anymore?), I'm happy that Dave Karofsky was brought back from oblivion, bringing to light one of the more tragic realities that gay teenagers face.
Please note: If you try this kind of thing at your job (falsifying expenses to canoodle with a contractor, trying to resign gracefully in order to maintain severance) you will probably get sued into oblivion and no one will give you one red cent in severance or even the $1290 in vacation time owed you.
"I do not want what I have got," he sang on his last album, yearning for oblivion of one kind or another.
His most in-depth encounter seems to be a 2007 one with Men's Health magazine: on the surface, a laddish account of a weight-loss workout programme ("You're crying for air. It redlines the heart into oblivion") but one that also gives insight into the enormous off-stage peddling required to be an action star.
