Word: dead
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Although several of the winning candidates predicted their election to Harvard's second most powerful governing body would have a substantial affect on University policy in the future, some veteran Overseers said that divestment was quickly becoming a "dead" issue...
...dispel a certain nervousness among the officials and diplomats who came to hear her. Many were momentarily startled when an army artillery squad fired the ceremonial 21-gun salute. They had reason to wince. The uprising had been bloody: 22 civilians, twelve loyalist soldiers and 19 rebels dead, with more than 300 injured, including Aquino's only son Benigno ("Noynoy"), 27. Perhaps more distressing, the coup attempt has exposed a deep vein of military dissatisfaction with the Aquino government, which has been bedeviled by a growing list of economic, administrative and, some allege, moral deficiencies...
Sooner or later everybody hears about Homestead, a dwindling Pennsylvania mill town of 5,092 souls just across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh. It was the site of historic labor-management strife in 1892, when striking workers lost a bloody (ten dead) battle with armed, union-busting Pinkerton agents hired by the Carnegie Steel Co. More recently, after U.S. Steel (now the USX Corp.) closed a plant that had provided about 15,000 jobs, the town commanded attention as a victim of the economic tides that have sunk smokestack industries. Last week Homestead blurted into national attention yet again -- this...
...raged and red tracer bullets arced through the night sky, civilians and journalists who turned out to see what was going on suddenly found themselves in a murderous cross fire. "They just sprayed us with bullets," said Ricardo Medina, 20. "I saw with my own eyes at least four dead on the street, with bits and pieces of brains scattered on the cement...
Last week Lee made a grisly discovery: the corpses of 28 women and four men in the attic of his wife's factory. The victims, dead for 24 hours, were bound and gagged except for one, who turned out to be Park. Police say Park committed suicide, while the others, most of whom had worked for her, were strangled or swallowed lethal pills. Authorities suggest that Park, who was given to apocalyptic rantings, was the leader of a cult; with debts mounting in this world, she simply decided to lead her flock on to the next...