Word: stroke
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...okay?” one of the DJs asked me, looking at me as though he feared I might drop dead from a stroke at any minute. Sure. Great. Just $1 million poorer and soon to be among the ranks of the directionless and unemployed. I vowed never to go to breakfast again...
...protesting foreigners did show how thorough the domestic crackdown on Falun Gong has been. Most Chinese practitioners are in jail, and those still free are underground or closely watched. If they protest, their relatives or bosses are punished. "Holding local officials responsible for practitioners in their areas was a stroke of genius," says a Western diplomat who tracks religious issues. As a result, native Chinese haven't protested in Tiananmen Square in large numbers since January last year, when five people set themselves on fire...
Such praise could be taken as a comment on the mess the Kingdom was in when Abdullah gradually began taking over following King Fahd's stroke in 1995. Custom dictated that Abdullah, as heir apparent, take the helm; the King, now 80, still appears for ceremonial functions but is too frail to run the country. During Fahd's 20-year reign, government spending as well as Saudi births soared, while oil revenues declined from $40 a barrel in 1980 to about $20 today. Fighting off Iraq's Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War also set the Kingdom back $60 billion...
...third game, Saunders staked herself to a 2-0 lead, but Wilkins came back to tie the score with a pretty, angled shot. The Harvard freshman began to exercise her dominance in taking a 4-2 lead and, after dropping a point on a stroke, won the next five and the match as Saunders self-destructed, spraying shots over the court and into the tin and hitting the wall with her racket...
...DIED. PRINCESS MARGARET, 71, glamorous younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II known for her jet-setting lifestyle and unhappy love life, following a stroke; in London. Margaret's 1953 romance with royal aide Peter Townsend made newspaper headlines around the world because he was divorced, and after two years she bowed to convention and broke off the relationship. Ironically, her subsequent 1960 marriage to society photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones ended in divorce in 1978. Once a heavy smoker, she suffered at least two earlier strokes and had recently been confined to a wheelchair. DIED. ANNALEE WHITMORE JACOBY FADIMAN, 85, screenwriter...