Word: bled
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Cindy Hickman nearly bled to death the day she gave birth--three months prematurely--to her triplet sons. Weighing less than 2 lbs. each, her babies were alive, but barely. They clung so tenuously to life that her doctors recommended she name them A, B and C. Then, after a year of heroic interventions--brain shunts, tracheotomies, skull remodeling--often requiring emergency helicopter rides to the hospital nearest their rural Tennessee home, the Hickmans learned that their triplets had cerebral palsy...
...question for IBM, however, is simple: can Big Blue do everything for everybody? Or will it be bled dry in one market segment after another by competitors who are focused on doing one thing well...
...taken a series of tragedies for public officials to begin to notice. In California regulators moved to revoke the licenses of nine facilities run by Regent Assisted Living Inc. after Lucille Giroux, 79, bled to death in her rocking chair at Sunnyside Court in Fremont. According to the state's investigation, she twice pressed her call button and no one came; Regent says no call for help was made. In Falls Church, Va., a 93-year-old woman was killed in May when, after she fell down outside, her facility's van ran over her. Lawmakers in Virginia...
...Iceman, they concluded, was shot from below. The arrow entered his body and paralyzed his arm. Though major organs were spared, major vessels were not. If an artery was severed, the hunter could have bled out in five minutes. If a vein was cut, he may have lingered for six frigid hours...
...mysteries surround the incident of July 7. First, is it possible that, as police allege, Grubman intentionally backed her SUV into a line of people, then left the scene as victims bled and moaned for help? A more interesting question is, Why have so many people responded to the tragedy with an unabashed victory dance on her figurative grave? Answering the second question requires understanding the Hamptons, a grand but tortured resort area just 100 miles outside New York City that attracts a flashy spectrum of celebrities, from Alec Baldwin to Tommy Hilfiger to Martha Stewart. It's a place...