Word: disappeared
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...expects the $582 billion direct-mail industry to disappear in the crisis. But a survey by the Direct Marketing Association following the reports of anthrax letters showed a third of all consumers were treating their mail with new suspicion. Many companies that relied on mail to reach customers are finding alternatives, from telemarketing to sophisticated new Internet techniques...
...Enron for his failed 2000 Senate re-election bid in Missouri. Then the entire office of the U.S. Attorney in Houston recused itself because too many of its prosecutors had personal ties to Enron executives-or to angry workers who have been fired or have seen their life savings disappear...
...were looking to disappear, the Afghan province of Helmand would be the place to do it. Hundreds of miles of desert, hills and mountains are interrupted only by the occasional huddle of mud-brick houses. The remote village of Musa Qal'eh in Helmand is still Taliban country. When Kandahar fell last month, as many as 1,500 Taliban fighters and their leaders are thought to have passed through the village. One of them may have been Mullah Mohammed Omar, the former ruler of Afghanistan and America's second-most-wanted...
...Even with the Taliban gone, bin Laden has the right connections to disappear. His fairy godfather in the Tora Bora region is a warlord named Younis Khalis, who invited him to Afghanistan in 1996 after even Sudan didn't want him. Khalis lives in an adobe compound a short distance from Jalalabad on the road to Tora Bora. He was close with the Taliban, which used his land as a parking lot for its tanks - more than a dozen of them were blown apart by US missiles and now lie wrecked on Khalis's land. Khalis himself...
...level that the cuts in the funding are at now, we would have no problem making up the difference,” Parks said. “If all the [state] money were to disappear, we may have to sit back and think about things...