Word: muted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...office, remote control in hand, transfixed by the talking heads' first take on his newborn presidential campaign. "A placeholder for Hillary Rodham Clinton," Pat Buchanan huffed from the screen. "I think we're seeing the idea percolating here of a Clinton-Clark ticket." Clark sighed and hit the mute button. "Oh, brother," he said. "Politics...
...would condemn a mother for relieving her child's suffering - but police in Berck-sur-Mer may reluctantly do just that. Last Wednesday officials launched homicide inquiries after Marie Humbert injected barbiturates into the IV drip of her severely handicapped son, Vincent; he died Friday. Left blind, paralyzed and mute after a 2000 auto accident, the mentally sound Vincent used movement in his thumb to communicate his physical and emotional agony over his "locked-in" condition. In a November letter to President Jacques Chirac, he asked that his mother be allowed to help him end his torment without risking prosecution...
...newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin, and later in a Chicago's alternative paper. Read episodically, these strips must have seemed little more than a mysterious downer. Presented collectively, the themes become much clearer, with narrative threads that tenuously link one strip to the next. Most are mute pantomimes featuring the Quimby character, who, not coincidentally, looks a lot like George Herriman's Ignatz Mouse. (Ignatz and Krazy Kat appear within the first ten pages of the sketchbooks, along with Superman, Batman, some live model drawings and an empty laundry room.) Quimby's nature changes from strip...
...computer software. My license to kill has not yet been issued, but my license to search through public SEC filings for corporate tax return data seemed to arrive on my first day. Instead of a military-issued pistol and silencer, I’m armed with Excel and a mute button on my laptop...
...horrible things happened to Casa Pia kids. Several senior staff have been sacked in recent months, but the new director, Catalina Pestana, told parliament that there may still be pedophiles in the Casa Pia system. Officials estimate that more than 100 boys and girls, some of them deaf and mute, may have been sexually abused. The government has promised to let Pestana take a broom to Casa Pia. Doing so would help Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso, whose Social Democratic Party ousted the Socialists in March last year, make good on his vow to bring life and honor...