Do you accept the fact that any kind of spending to create jobs is dead at this point?

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They delineate neighbourhoods, create microclimates and provide drop-dead vistas.

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For example, EcoBot-II, developed in 2004, was fed dead flies and rotten apples in order to create power.

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Despite the division over how to create them, the broad co-op proposal is not dead, several sources said.

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The plants create a habitat for creatures like protozoans and microscopic crustaceans that eat the dead and dying bacteria.

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I'd argue that Treasury bills, gold holdings and an ANWR that is off limits to drilling are examples of dead wealth--that is, stored wealth that could create more wealth if put to proper use.

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He demonstrated that government could put people to work to create roads, bridges and rural electricity and could restart an economy with a dead battery.

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He took the lessons he'd absorbed over the years to create his own path, at a time when the original trail seemed to be leading to a dead end.

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Scientists at North Carolina's Duke University worked with a taxidermist to create a wing-flapping "Robosparrow" using picaxe chips, tiny linear motors... and a dead sparrow.

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