Word: killing
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...yanked the set out of the wall and tossed it out a second-story window. Hours later she guiltily found it lying in a heap on the lawn. She brought it inside and plugged it in. To her horror, it still worked. "Damn!" she said. "You can't even kill the sucker...
...last night, we held a "no-talent show," in which each person sang or told stories for the group. I don't know how long my daughter and I can hold out without TV, but we've learned some discipline and some alternatives. Maybe we can't kill the sucker--but we can control...
...mother is going to kill me for including her in a column about menopause, but when I read about a doctor treating hot flashes with a drug for seizures, it reminded me of a conversation my mother and I had a few months ago. For some reason we were talking about hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women when out of the blue, she asked, "What do you think about those herbal supplements?" This was my mother's way of telling me that she was one of the 30 million American women going through the change of life, at least...
...have said the so-called death tax is an issue you're tracking. Governor Bush has vowed to abolish it. (At press time, the U.S. House of Representatives had voted to kill it and was waiting for the Senate vote...
...Pentagon is 1 for 3 in its bid to build a missile shield. Things began unraveling even before the $20 million exoatmospheric kill vehicle left Kwajalein Atoll on Friday night, when the balloon decoy accompanying a mock warhead fired from California failed to inflate. Then, shortly after the launch of the interceptor, its final rocket stage refused to separate from the kill vehicle, dooming the mission. AIR FORCE LIEUT. GENERAL RON KADISH, who runs the military's missile-defense programs, monitored the test from inside a secure Pentagon conference room. His nervous energy soured into bitter disappointment as he watched...