Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although deregulation of the electric power market has made some large utility firms nervous, Moler said theirs may be a case of live and let die...
...effect is similar to one caused by the recreational drug Ecstasy, a distant chemical cousin of the fenfluramine family, and the cause is evidently the same: neurotoxicity, or more plainly, the killing of brain cells. An overdose of Redux makes the neurons that produce serotonin swell, then wither, then die, according to Johns Hopkins neurologist Dr. Mark Molliver. Eventually some of the cells regenerate, but they are often malformed. Moreover, the overdose doesn't have to be huge. All Molliver had to do was double the dosage required for weight loss. In humans, such an overdose could presumably happen...
After enduring nearly a month of guilt, Graham says, he confessed his infidelity to Zamora, a student at nearby Crowley High School. She told Graham, he says, that her rival must die. "When this precious relationship we had was damaged by my thoughtless actions," he later told police in a written statement, "the only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place." The couple's plan was simple, he said: he would break Jones' neck, and weight the corpse with barbells before sinking it in Joe Pool...
...enough during the week, on paydays Malachy McCourt would guzzle away his wages at a pub and, late Friday night, stagger home, penniless. There, while his wife Angela wept and railed, he would coax his sons into singing old patriot tunes and roar that they must be ready to die for Ireland. Next morn, as oft as not, he would be too groggy for work. And thus was another job lost...
...McNamara and his times are unnecessary. Shattering events speak for themselves, as the witness literature of the 20th century reminds us again and again. But even though The Living and the Dead fails to levitate McNamara and his Pentagon, it touches a heavy truth: Americans did not have to die in Vietnam. The U.S. lost the war, and today the region is overrun by venture capitalists...