Word: die
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...die. Sink or swim. Backs against the wall...
Today, Bush risks a repeat of the Iraq failure with his support of another dictator, Syrian leader Hafez Assad. Even after the Gulf War, Hussein himself (a man Bush called "worse" than Adolf Hitler) remains strong. What's worse, Bush has allowed thousands of Kurds and Shiites to die at the dictator's hands...
...CADILLACS NEVER DIE," OBSERVES the great trumpet player and immortal bopcat at the close of Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. "The finance company just fade 'em away." DIZZY GILLESPIE must never have had a brush with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump...
...tugging her into line with a few "Earth to Moms," while Tyler and his at-loose-ends friends resent their grandparents because they've swallowed up the wealth of several future generations and spent it on a Winnebago. The teens' opportunities are grim because their little Northwestern town is dying from the loss of the nuclear industry, and they grow depressed because they could all die from the toxic waste left behind. The only light of hope for Tyler reflects from the glass skyscrapers of the huge Bechtol corporation in Seattle, where he wants to work...
Furthermore, what sort of living standards does this formula create? Lowered ones. The environment will be worse, wages will be lower (because minimum wage laws die), working conditions will be more dangerous, and the government will have less to spend on infrastructure, job training, education and so on--the kinds of things that would raise living standards...