Word: knell
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...received more than $1.2 billion in government contracts since it declared bankruptcy. An Aug. 25 hearing has been scheduled in bankruptcy court on MCI's plan to reorganize and emerge as a full competitor in the telecom market. But industry sources say the suspension could be the death knell for the company...
There was widespread shock and dismay last year when researchers reported that a popular combination of female hormones called Prempro, taken for more than a couple of years, increases a woman's risk of developing heart disease and breast cancer. The news seemed to sound the death knell for long-term hormone-replacement therapy (HRT). Yet even at the time, scientists recognized that there was a chance for a reprieve: the estrogen-progestin mix might still delay or even prevent various kinds of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. To find out, researchers began a careful analysis of a subset...
...point system which applies a fixed number of points for race is not flexible enough. Or the Court could impose a time requirement so that policies have a fixed duration. As a practical matter, the Court could, by establishing difficult or unreachable standards for narrow tailoring, sound a death knell for many race-conscious admissions policies...
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...conceptual disregard for the “individual,” reality exists only for individuals. The devastation of Sept. 11 was real only to individuals; it was only experienced on the personal level. Many of us at Harvard felt the blow to the towers and heard the death knell of the attacks. Even as the frightful reports streamed in, I myself didn’t cry on Sept. 11 until I remembered the calm of the damaged St. Paul’s Church I had experienced one Sunday last spring. My memory is now disrupted—that...