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The big cable companies--balking at the costs of converting one-way cable to two-way voice lines--have shelved plans to get into the local phone business.
According to Tally, Cubist produced daptomycin, approved in September 2003, by licensing it from Eli Lilly, which shelved the new compound after concluding its potential market was only $250 million.
In my office, two or three times a day I look into the room where the mail is shelved.
Annan's United Nations has shelved Boutros-Ghali's grand ambitions.
Lucky audiences who caught Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (it was shelved when Richard Carpenter served the producers with an order to cease and desist exhibition) began by laughing at this elaborately posed, soft-rock femme, only to discover by the climax that the cultural forces that were eating at her (and that kept her from eating) had grown heartbreakingly palpable.