Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be indelibly marked by Robert's madness, the way Villisca, Iowa, is by the brutal ax murder of eight residents there back in 1912. But uppermost in everyone's mind is the hope that the Dreesmans will be remembered for all they did, not for the way they died. The hospital addition will help, although Robert almost killed that possibility too, by assuming he could dispose of his family's wealth with his own will, since he would be the last to die. For some contorted reason, he left $1 to each of his victims and everything else...
...stands at twice the rate of Japan and below that of 23 other countries, including less affluent ones like Spain and Singapore. More troubling, infant mortality remains one of the nation's starkest measures of the separation between blacks and whites: twice as many black babies as white die within their first year...
...unpublished report, which was leaked to the press last summer, the White House study recommended 18 steps costing a total of $500 million a year, including targeting 20 areas where infants die in especially high numbers. But the OMB scaled back the White House proposals to $171 million; instead of targeting 20 areas, it recommended 10. Worse, OMB decided that a large part of the money would come from other health programs for poor women and children. That penny-pinching tactic sparked an outcry that could be heard all the way down Pennsylvania Avenue. "It is absolutely Mephistophelian...
...this time is the coroner's verdict truly beyond dispute? Up to now, yuppies have proved harder to kill than Freddy Krueger. One can imagine the horror movie Nightmare at the Brie Counter, Part 12: Die Again, Yuppie Scum...
Each year about 400,000 people in the U.S. die of sudden cardiac death. Kirby said most of these deaths are suspected of being caused by ventricular fibrillation, the most fatal form of irregular heart rhythm, or arrhythmia...