Word: decays
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Each love affair is its own life. And whether its span is that of a mayfly or a Galapagos tortoise, it has a life cycle of birth, growth, maturity, decay, death. And possibly rebirth? Or just instant replay...
...Percentage of the world's population suffering from tooth decay, according to the World Health Organization...
Author of The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars, and State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror, Robert Rotberg talks about his new book When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. This book comprises fourteen previously unpublished essays, which examine how and why states decay and what can be done to prevent this from happening in the future. 12.30 p.m. Room L150. First Floor, Littauer Building...
...effective Democrat analogue, culminated in a list of good words with which to describe oneself, and negative terms for one’s opponents. The “D” section is classic: “debate, dream, duty” for positive language; “decay, destroy, destructive, devour, disgrace” for Democrats. The memo is over-the-top, but it worked. As one staffer on “The West Wing” sighed, it’s now been the case for years that “Republicans are just good at naming things...
...Daisy, like many of her generation, had much she may have wished to forget. Born into the florid decay of imperial China, Daisy would live through a particular horror: she watched her own mother, forced to become a concubine, commit suicide by swallowing raw opium. Despite such early trauma, she managed to survive in Shanghai amid hellish marital troubles (her brutal first husband divorced her and seized custody of her three children), before she fled to the U.S. As Daisy exhibits symptoms of Alzheimer's, a concerned Amy takes her mother in for tests; Daisy growls, "Nothing wrong my memory...