These people had less obvious injuries but had suffered an insidious threat: Their singed facial hair and sooty mouths alluded to the degree of damage that could be in their lungs raising concern that subsequent swelling could impede their ability to breathe.

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When war was declared, she shot herself in the head, but survived, and lived for several years with a degree of brain damage.

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Companies like Global Links have claimed that the high degree of trade settlement failures have caused irreparable damage not only to their stocks but also to their ability to carry on as companies.

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Their view was that although some day to day fluctuation in functional abilities was characteristic of brain damage due to cerebrovascular disease, further sustained functional improvement of a significant degree was unlikely.

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"It would continue to damage her and obviously the separation, though sad and even tragic from her point of view, does provide some degree of protection, because I would have thought she couldn't survive much longer".

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