Word: lethally
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...taking my business elsewhere. This ain't the city I was born in," writes a visitor to the popular Sod-U-Ken website. Some portion of the complaints are legitimate. After decades of underfunding and neglect, Greater London's public transit system is often late and sometimes lethal, leaving many commuters with few options. The profits from the new charge will be used to rehabilitate the system, but that will take time. Many Londoners find it hard to believe that the capital's transit authority can manage such a massive scheme; indeed, the payment site, www.cclondon.com, has already crashed multiple...
...both the beginning and the end of his case. So let's start where he does, even if it has become a cliche: 9/11 changed everything. Even the intellectual godfathers of the get-Saddam campaign admit that the terror assault showed America's enemies a new and more lethal way to fight and spotlighted how a rogue state--namely Iraq--with the resources to develop weapons of mass destruction might employ them. The abiding conviction that tyrants and terrorists would surely combine forces to attack America carried the Administration across a threshold...
Today the details of the attacks sound all too familiar: coordinated strikes across a nation's financial and cultural capital; Islamic zealots possessed by a lethal intensity of purpose; security agencies that fail to detect any sign of danger beforehand. And, behind it all, a shadowy boss beyond the reach of the law, with connections to Pakistan's secret service and a vast personal fortune...
...author of the note is Rommy Gandolph, a convicted triple murderer scheduled to die by lethal injection a month from the opening of last year’s Reversible Errors—the sixth and latest crime novel from Scott Turow, Harvard Law School (HLS) Class of 1977. Assigned to Gandolph’s case is Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer until a judge waves a “magic wand” and turns what Turow describes as an “unwilling toad—a fully occupied lawyer—into a pro bono prince, with...
Advocates of the ban, supported by local restaurant workers’ unions, say that the ban is a necessary measure to control a health risk and to make sure waiters and bartenders have safe working environments. They argue that the dangers of second-hand smoke could be lethal to the wait staff...