She simply let Britain's homegrown auto companies sink into oblivion and let smarter foreign companies rebuild Britain's decayed car industry.

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So why not spin it off to shareholders where it can sink into oblivion on its own when it runs out of cash and borrowing power?

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Then Los Angeles Times staff writer Martin Miller wrote about the upcoming show, "Back to You, " a multi-camera sitcom created by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, and cautioned that the format could slowly sink into oblivion if the networks didn't see results.

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And with some senior liberals like Count Otto Lambsdorff, an ex-economics minister, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, an ex-foreign minister, not standing for the next parliament, many pundits expect the party to sink first into irrelevance and then oblivion.

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