Word: die
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...problem with a restoration this big is that it's so hard to keep it a secret. And old habits die hard. How else to explain the woman working the switchboard at the Bush-Cheney transition headquarters the other day who picked up the phone and said, "Bush-Quayle." She quickly corrected herself with an embarrassed laugh, but who could really blame...
...Percentage of South Africa's 15-year-olds expected to die of AIDS in the next decade...
...relentless predictability. Vianne always knows, and we always know, what effect her concoctions will have on her customers. They always shake off their repressions and troubles at precisely the right inspirational moment. Dench's character even manages to die just when she should, with her life's work neatly completed. Made with a sort of tasteful vulgarity, this movie never disappoints the slack-minded audience's anticipation of the humanistically healing banality, the life-crushing behavioral cliche...
...Empire maintain its hegemony, or will new challenges arise to its control? Think also of the changes in daily life: Now, just like in all previous societies, most of humanity scratches out a living from small dirt fields in grinding, famine-prone poverty, and vast numbers of children die before age five...
More likely is that Bush would use subtler means to compromise Clinton's legacy. He could appoint agency chiefs who would hold up environment-protection plans, and omit funds in his budgets for projects drawn up by Clinton, leaving them to die on the vine. Unsympathetic officials could slow down the cleanup of PCBs from the Hudson and the implementation of the Kyoto climate-change treaty by sheer foot dragging...