Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Witnesses said the dead man had been holding up a poster reading "Marcos Concede" when the bullet hit him in the chest, killing him instantly. The woman, 19, was wounded on the forehead...
...father, said wryly, "I would have gotten the hacksaw sooner." Commented his wife Grace: "I would have gotten my nail file." One veteran consultant to NASA was less charitable, asking, "Can you imagine a pad leader permitting an s.o.b. to show up for work with a drill with a dead battery...
...that he required quadruple-bypass surgery. Nine years later a double-bypass was performed. But in both instances the vessels that had been grafted around his heart became plugged with fatty plaque. When the second bypass failed, Lewis had run out of standard medical options. "I was in a dead-end situation," he recalls. "My doctor gave me less than a year to < live...
...Union address, the President will try to depict his budget plan as an exciting opportunity to liberate the forces of free enterprise from the shackles of Big Government. It is doubtful that many Congressmen will be moved. Already last week some legislators were pronouncing the Reagan budget "dead before arrival." Still, more realistic Hill leaders were aware that the President's budget cannot be dismissed out of hand, as it has been in the past. Congressional budget writers may differ on how to get there, but Gramm-Rudman requires that Congress and the White House arrive at the same bottom...
...report issued by Doctors Without Borders, a Paris-based group that sends medical personnel to trouble spots around the world, charges that the Ethiopian government's efforts to resettle 575,000 famine-stricken peasants from the country's northern highlands may have left as many as 100,000 refugees dead. Says Author Claude Malhuret: "There can be no doubt that today resettlement is the biggest killer in Ethiopia, not famine...