Some critics deride the senate as a retirement home for has-been politicians and party hacks.
Some see the U.S. as a has-been, burdened with deficits, a housing bubble, low savings and grim prospects.
But nobody wants to be thought of as a has-been in the making.
The man was 65-years old and until a year earlier was generally considered to be a crackpot and a political has-been.
Remember when Gap was relegated to has-been status in the early 1990s?
Most of the reports of his death treated Mughniyeh as a has-been.
Today he stands to earn millions after deftly navigating his firm through an investment in Polaroid, the has-been instant camera company that filed for bankruptcy in 2001.
Though Japan is often cast as a has-been in Asia as it has been battling a years-long slump, corporate balance sheets are in good shape and flush with cash.
So is Morrissey the kindly uncle of pop who can still soothe angst-ridden teenagers, or an 80s has-been who should ditch the introspection and do something less boring instead?
But Connie Minor, a has-been newspaperman, finds himself involved in numerous intrigues and mysteries (including the attempted assassination of union biggie Walter Reuther) with all sorts of well-drawn, colorful characters.
MPs has-been ex-ministers and never-going-to-be-and-know-it backbenchers for whom infidelity seems costless.
Luke Ravenstahl, that has-been at the age of 33...
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These condemnations were not nostalgic pinings for a has-been.
But it's the children who have transformed the big mustachioed Joseph Kony from a has-been Ugandan warlord into the second-coming of Adolf Hitler (whose little mustachioed face is, of course, also featured in the video).
Then, you get it to the nearest TV network and run it somewhere between a show about a bunch of airplane crash victims lost on an island, and some has-been stars that now make their living ballroom dancing.
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What is more, as a feature story in today's Washington Post makes clear, Mr. Gorbachev is at best a has-been, at worst a still-malevolent force determined to reverse whatever progress has been made toward genuine Russian democratization and free enterprise.
This reliance on has-been brands could explain why former Target executive Michael Francis left JC Penney after only eight months and was just named chief global brand officer of DreamWorks Animation SKG ( DWA), according to the Wall Street Journal.
As the fictional director Lester Siegel, an acidulous has-been who drives a gold Rolls-Royce, Alan Arkin gets some of the best lines it would take too many asterisks to quote the topper, which becomes a running gag and he turns a smallish part into a thriller's antic soul.
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Only in the world of personal computers could a company like Apple, essentially a has-been reduced to a miniscule market share, introduce a throwback model distinguished only by a differently colored plastic box, and have it treated by the media as if it was a history-making event.
But through it all, Jim - like the Marine he has always been - has been a dedicated public servant and a friend to me.
Bonds has never been - Bonds has been capable of great charm, but he shows it rarely.
As we mark the 100th anniversary of Rosa Parks's birth, we celebrate the life of a genuine American hero and remind ourselves that although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
The result has been a boom-bust cycle that has been disruptive--and now politically costly.
Helmand province -- where British troops have been based -- has been a militant stronghold and a poppy-growing region that helps fund the insurgency.
And, for example, the campaign in Marja has been -- has taken longer and been more difficult that we anticipated, but the reality is we have made significant progress at this point.
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However the pre-election mood has been dominated by widespread concern that the root of the crisis - ethnic rivalry - has not been completely eradicated.
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