Word: dead
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Mondale said later that "the last four or five days, I could feel something happen." But not until Sunday night, when the ABC-Washington Post poll put Mondale and Hart in a dead heat, did the Mondale dreadnought realize it was sinking. "We were 'pretty surprised," said one top aide. "It happened in 48 hours. It was a trend we couldn't get hold of." As worried aides analyzed the plummeting polls, they began praying for clear weather. A snowstorm would keep home elderly voters and complacent party regulars, Mondale's core constituency...
Thomas Chandler and Victor Howard, two internal-affairs division officers who worked with McLaughlin in uncovering the drug ring, strongly disagree. They also claim to have been threatened recently; a package arrived last month at their Chicago headquarters with cut-up animal parts, two dead fish, and a note reading, "Death for you and yours." Howard says that McLaughlin's assailants knew who he was: "The message those attackers gave him was 'You broke the code, and nobody is going to get away with that.' " A police officer in Georgia who is familiar with the case, explaining...
There was little that the other actors involved in the Lebanese drama could do but watch and hope. In Jerusalem, officials unhappily accepted the fact that their agreement with the Gemayel government was a dead letter. They also paid an additional price for the continuing Israeli occupation: early in the week, two Israeli soldiers were killed near the Shi'ite Muslim village of Arab Salmi, bringing the total number of Israeli fatalities in Lebanon to 571. Within shattered Beirut, the 1,250 French troops who are all that remain of the four-nation Multi-National Force were told that...
...airline's new self-confidence is typical of several major companies that are bouncing back after being given up for dead. All were victims of external economic problems and their own excesses...
...plug, the size of a nickel, inserted in his skull behind the left ear. On one memorable day, the plug was connected to a large central computer, and for the first time in years, Columpus could hear the spoken word. "When we disconnected for lunch, there was a very dead feeling, a very shut-off feeling," he recalls. "I was affected more by my hearing's being taken away than by receiving...