Word: dead-end
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...eggmen today pay $4.50 for a 100-lb. sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls.'' says New Jersey State Agriculture Secretary Phillip Alampi. ''but the poultry farmer, particularly in New Jersey, is the dead-end kid of American agriculture...
...many such teen-agers in the bleak reaches of upper Manhattan's slums, high school is a waste of time-and public money. More often than not they drop out before graduation to take dead-end jobs, in a few years send to school another generation of hopeless pupils. But to some 450 youngsters at Manhattan's George Washington High School and Junior High School 43, an experimental teaching and guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years...
...German question"? Western experts no longer believe that he was merely probing for weak spots in the Western alliance. Moscow is well aware that an increasing number of West German politicians, expecially the Socialists, regard Konrad Adenauer's stern insistence on reunification, with no strings attached, as dead-end diplomacy. They are flirting restlessly with the notion that if the West agreed to discuss German demilitarization first, it might be able to lure Moscow into serious talks about reunification...
...peaceful English town tucked between the green folds of the Lower Midlands. The chimes in the stone tower of the Anglican Church peal over sheep meadows and farmers' plots, over royal parks and public playgrounds. The town is small; only six trains per day chuff up to the dead-end terminal to disgorge the Cockney families from Wands-worth or Chipping Norton or Stepney who come to enjoy a day on the river...
...histories of surgery's triumph over one of nature's malign quirks that was once invariably fatal, then permanently crippling. The anomaly: a baby, healthy-looking at birth, may prove to have no gullet (esophagus) to carry food from mouth to stomach. Sometimes there is a short, dead-end stretch of gullet at both top and bottom, but the middle section is missing. Often there is an opening between the defective gullet and the windpipe, so that air goes into the stomach and food into the lungs. Exact incidence of these defects is unknown: the best estimate...