Word: disappeared
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While HRE is in such a vehement spring-cleaning mode, we at dartboard would like to offer a few more suggestions of the types of items which HRE Ministry of Justice can make "disappear." Start with a ridicules "shops" themselves, and then the gray, pseudo-Bauhaus, bureaucrat-infested, architectural travesty known as "Holyoke Center." Then move across the yard and snatch up cell blocks A-D of the Canaday Penal Colony. Finally, squash Le Corbusier's odious bug of a building, the ineptly named "carpenter center...
...ROTC were to disappear at Harvard, prospective students would have to choose between a Harvard education and a desire to serve their country. It's no surprise that members of the staff have no interest in military service themselves; if they did, they might see the injustice in taking away a career option for future students...
...voters -- the David Dukes as well as the Bobby Agees. Even without kooks, they fear it will create mosaic governments paralyzed by factionalism. Others predict that once minority members realize cumulative systems provide an automatic "safe seat," numerous candidates will split the vote, and the seat will disappear. Exactly that happened last year in Centre, a small town about 100 miles away, which also tried cumulativism: a black made the city council in 1988, but four years later he had black competition, and the council reverted to lily-white...
...death or some other natural cause. Now, in addition to enduring their grief, they will face more intense questioning from officials. But SIDS parents are among the most fervent supporters of stricter investigations. "The truth," notes Thomas Moran, president of the SIDS alliance, "is that bias and confusion will disappear only when people are really sure why every baby in this country dies...
...well as the death of up to 14 others. The murders stretch back 15 years and all the way to New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia and Florida. Potts denies involvement in all these murders, but a law-enforcement spokesman noted, "It seems wherever Mr. Potts is, people disappear...