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The sale added Vanderbilt to a growing list of colleges and universities, including Rice University in Houston and the University of San Francisco, where college radio licenses are being sold off, backed by the assertion that today's well-wired students no longer tune in to the medium.

Fluid controls (once you had them committed to memory), quick-session gameplay (making it ideal for pad-swapping between mates), and a memorable soundtrack (how many albums did Styles of Beyond sell off the back of this?) made for one hell of a distraction from lectures, homework, getting the bus to the office, and feeding the cats/kids (select as appropriate based on your own experience).

"We had a huge truck that we sold off the back of," recalled Ms. Laurent, who worked with him, selling clock radios, cassette players and electrical appliances along with other household goods.

"Those price targets were the equivalent of snake oil being sold off the back of covered wagons in the Wild West," said Stefan D. Abrams, chief investment officer for asset allocation at the Trust Company of the West in New York.

No one gives a damn about Dior now that it's not sold off the backs of new musicians.

And we've seen products like AOL's Patch sold off and scaled back because of the huge investment in resources needed to make local work profitably.

Having sold off or cut back most of its overseas routes, T.W.A.'s biggest asset is its hub in St . Louis the major attraction for American, which has little room to grow at its hubs in Chicago and Dallas.

At the same time, the rise in Los Angeles real-estate values put intense pressure on the studios to sell off their sprawling back lots.

Energy stocks sold off as oil eased back from six-month highs.

Energy stocks sold off as oil eased back from six-month highs, and Exxon Mobil shares lost $1.05, or 1.5%, to $68.56.

But world prices have leapt back to nearly $6,900 a tonne, pushing Zambia's projected output this year up to 666,000 tonnes, three times its level when the mines were sold off a decade ago, though not yet back to the 730,000-plus tonnes being produced when Mr Kaunda nationalised the industry in the early 1970s.