Penaud snatched a second score on 67 minutes, while exhausted Italy, who refused to lay down and die even as they compensated for being a man short, pulled a try back through Mazzucato.

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Efficiency is way up: It now takes between 12 and 15 minutes to change a die on the passenger car assembly line, down from two hours in 2000.

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Might a bank, for example, turn down a loan to someone because their health records suggest they may die at a young age?

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The classic guarantee is a return of principal to your heirs if the portfolio goes down and you die before cashing in the annuity.

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In July, the House of Lords voted down a proposal to make it legal to help a terminally ill person die.

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Thoroughbreds usually die by falling on one of the fences, breaking a limb, and later being put down.

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It was a marvellous victory for Pakistan and also for Test cricket, which once again refuses to lie down and die, and proves it is the best game in the world.

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But I feel that within a week or so there will be very few farmers adding stuff to the milk and probably the problem will die down.

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