Word: disappearance
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...Mohtashamipour has also claimed that the government moved polling booths to schools and mosques with strong Basij bases and that entire ballot boxes could disappear or their votes be canceled. One text message circulating during the week instructed Mousavi supporters to vote in schools rather than mosques. The following day, another widely distributed message read, "The SMS you received about voting in schools was circulated by the opposing camp. They want to nullify ballot boxes based in schools, the majority of which will now carry Mousavi's name. Please send...
...odds are very high we regain prosperity, but very low that we regain that combination. I think our likely scenario is tremendous prosperity with tremendous ambiguity and instability. That means those who know how to manage in that environment will do very well, and those who don't may disappear...
Amelia Earhart: Sometimes I wish I could just disappear...
Chronic illnesses like depression, diabetes and hypertension don't magically disappear during pregnancy. And as women delay childbearing, more moms-to-be are struggling with cancer. So it's hardly surprising that two-thirds of women take up to five drugs over the course of their pregnancy and labor. Yet only a dozen prescription drugs are approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during pregnancy, and they're all pregnancy-related: drugs for inducing labor, for example, or epidural anesthesia. Which means patients with many common conditions face an excruciating dilemma: decline medication whose effects...
...notwithstanding the amounts that will disappear into bank accounts in Hong Kong, casinos in Macau and the gaudy houses that stud the outskirts of every Chinese city, China stands to gain more than it loses through its building campaign. The scale of its needs remains immense: the country's leaders are, after all, attempting to move more people out of dire poverty and into something like comfort in a shorter time than has ever been seen before in human history...