Word: dominoed
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...Jeffrey Eugenides' novel of the same name and told partially in flashback from the perspective of several neighborhood adolescents who recount the events surrounding the disturbing suicides of the five Lisbon sisters. These collective narrators bring us into the world of the Lisbon's and the suicidal domino effect that occurs when the youngest daughter, Cecilia, hurls herself from the second-story window of the family's home at a party thrown in her honor. After Cecilia's death, the remaining sisters are cloistered in the house only allowed to leave for school, by their oppressive and overprotective parents...
...move had a domino effect on Born's chances. Before the meeting, Braude told Reeves he would support him if Born was not elected mayor on the first ballot...
After six years in a Vietcong prison camp, John McCain knows all about the Domino Theory. And three decades later, the Arizona senator still appears to have trains of chips on his mind, hoping that his win in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary is the first one to fall on the way to the Republican presidential nomination. There's just one problem with this metaphor: Domino trains work only when the pieces are evenly spaced. A small piece collapsing into three or four chips stacked together is stopped short. Likewise, the McCain Express could run into a dead stop...
...Still, there are signs that the domino train has been set in motion. After barely totaling $1.4 million in the months leading to New Hampshire, online donations to McCain's web site surpassed $800,000 in the 48 hours following the win. Polls that last week had Bush ahead by 20 points in South Carolina now have the race too close to call. Meanwhile, on Thursday the McCain Express toppled a major hurdle when New York governor George Pataki (who's reportedly angling for the No. 2 spot on a Bush for President ticket), bowed to popular demand and pressed...
...registered independents, a key factor in New Hampshire, to vote in their primaries. This, along with the votes of conservatives wary of McCain who'll abandon the right-leaning Steve Forbes and Alan Keyes in favor of the more plausible Bush, could be what it takes to derail the domino train...