Word: fatalities
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...power - to which Micheletti promised he would be arrested for treason. The ousted President said he would return home anyway, along with several other Latin American Presidents who have condemned the coup. Micheletti retorted that their plane would not be allowed to land. And then in the final and fatal exchange, Zelaya sent his supporters in the capital to peacefully take over the airport, and brashly flew into Honduran airspace...
...presentations, in an effort to save the businesses that built BEA, some authors all but owned up to writing based on what they thought Google wanted to hear. Such surrender commits a fatal conflation: the goal of saving the print business itself with the goal of saving the stories it tells (the real reason the business began in the first place...
...acknowledges that recent news events may color perceptions of the New Bethel event - the murder of Dr. George Tiller, the shooting at the Holocaust Museum and the fatal shooting of a teen near New Bethel Church - but says they actually strengthen his argument that people who own guns should learn how to use them. Yet he also acknowledges the open-carry controversy has grown uglier than he expected and hinted at personal threats from across the religious-political spectrum. Pagano says the church's insurance carrier, after giving an initial go-ahead, has now told him it cannot insure...
...think the fatal flaw of a lot of people in politics is that they want to be loved. I sleep like a baby at night." -Brushing off criticism for his stance on rejecting federal stimulus money (New York Times, April...
...whereas Ollestad's prose has a more breathless, unpolished, confessional quality. But Sabbag's book, while more eloquent, is less complete. If there is a tragedy in Down Around Midnight, it is not of the Greek kind - Sabbag's bad luck was purely random, and if there was a fatal flaw involved, it wasn't his. He circles and circles around the trauma, interviewing his fellow victims, and their relatives, and even the emergency workers who beat a trail through the woods to save them. But he never arrives at an epiphany big enough to match the magnitude of what...