Word: dooms
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Genes and social forces may conspire to turn people into addicts but do not doom them to remain so. Consider the case of Rafael Rios, who grew up in a housing project in New York City's drug-infested South Bronx. For 18 years, until he turned 31, Rios, whose father died of alcoholism, led a double life. He graduated from Harvard Law School and joined a prestigious Chicago law firm. Yet all the while he was secretly visiting a shooting gallery once a day. His favored concoction: heroin spiked with a jolt of cocaine. Ten years ago, Rios succeeded...
With the Crimson beset by a myriad of injuries, including top scorer Mike Ferrucci's shoulder, falling into a hole like that to a talented opponent spelled doom...
Again in the eleventh, Harvard's sloppy defense seemed to doom them, as the Crimson allowed Maine junior secondbaseman Keith Croteau to reach third with two outs on an error, a stolen base, and a wild pitch. Croteau was then singled home on an infield hit that deflected off the pitcher's mound. Maine was on top again...
...white jury that Simpson is liable for the battering of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and the murder of her friend Ron Goldman, and the prior decision by a mostly black jury, which absolved him of murder, have raised the specter of racism. The case spells the eventual doom of the principles proclaimed by America's founders and seems to foreshadow a coming social, political and economic revolution. SAMUEL J. GORDEN Tempe, Arizona...
...beyond the sheer addictiveness of "Jewelbox" or even "Doom", wherein lies the key to video game success? Where any Vegas showgirl would tell you: looking pretty, taking it easy and letting everybody think they're winning...