Word: withering
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SEOUL: Knowing how quickly public disgust can wither a strike, protesting unions are sending their charges back to work--for free. As part of a "Day of solidarity with the people" arranged by the outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions, striking auto mechanics provided free tuneups in 12 South Korean cities, and some nurses and hospital workers set up tents offering free blood-pressure checks and services for the elderly. The confederation also promised that thousands of striking workers would hit the streets with brooms in a cleanup campaign, while others would help dig out remote villages snowed...
...grab the nearest item of modular meanness. Of course, not all coolster coinages are overtly fightin' words. Indeed, some affect affectlessness: Same old, same old; Blah blah blah; Yadda yadda yadda. But given the right nuances, indifference can pack a wallop: Yadda will outsnide blah, for instance but wither before the passive-aggressive champ (and Bob Dole favorite), Whatever...
...seems to be that final clubs are bad because they are exclusive and elitist, so let's support new restrictions that will make them even more exclusive and elitist. Perhaps the staff feels that by turning the final clubs back into highly restricted gentlemens's clubs, they will somehow wither and disappear. This is dubious at best; they have been here for almost a century and aren't going anywhere; we should advocate that they open themselves up to the rest of the community, not vice-versa...
Much to the staff's chagrin, final clubs won't wither away any time soon. The staff's position in just a manifestation of the sour grapes gnashing between the bitter teeth of those who aren't invited to the clubs...
...least. The effect is similar to one caused by the recreational drug Ecstasy, a distant chemical cousin of the fenfluramine family, and the cause is evidently the same: neurotoxicity, or more plainly, the killing of brain cells. An overdose of Redux makes the neurons that produce serotonin swell, then wither, then die, according to Johns Hopkins neurologist Dr. Mark Molliver. Eventually some of the cells regenerate, but they are often malformed. Moreover, the overdose doesn't have to be huge. All Molliver had to do was double the dosage required for weight loss. In humans, such an overdose could presumably...