Americans always seem ready to believe that national decline lies dead ahead.
And dead ahead is the gaping cone of Vesuvius, long tongues of lava from the last eruption (1944) visible even from here.
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The risk is that in single-mindedly looking out for inflationary icebergs, a central bank will fail to spot the rocks that lie dead ahead.
Unless you pay no attention to headline news or never open a web browser, it is unlikely you are oblivious to the hyped disasters that lie dead ahead.
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Yet the very fact that many big businesses seem so strategically like-minded a few months ahead of a legislative drop-dead day (literally) suggests a quieter brand of leadership, one wholly appropriate to the current exigent circumstance.
Bresnan said the England dressing room was "a fairly jubilant" place as the team celebrated with bottles of beer ahead of the first of the two dead rubbers next Wednesday.
But the Irish wilted in the closing minutes, and after Scelzo had forced his way over Bartolucci won the race for a kick ahead to touch down inches inside the dead-ball line.
The candidate who was shot dead on Friday in Karachi deepened the tensions over security ahead of the elections.
But national surveys show Mr. Obama is in a virtual dead heat with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and ahead of Mr. Gingrich.
Romney is ahead in Florida, and Virginia is a dead heat.
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Staying ahead of the infection by getting rid of the dead tissue is crucial.
Most of the Democratic candidates for president were in California over the weekend, courting activists ahead of California's early primary and taking dead aim at President Bush.
It is the goal of the counterterrorism community to stay several steps ahead of our terrorist adversaries so that we can stop terrorists dead in their tracks before they are able to carry out either small-scale or potentially devastating attacks.
Factional clashes that broke out in 2006 ahead of the last elections in 2007 had left more than 30 people dead and drove hundreds of thousands into refugee camps.
Kent Police have been given the go-ahead to continue their inquiries into the death of a schoolboy who was found shot dead at his Cobham home on Friday.
His chip ahead beat Luke Arscott but the Leeds captain could not ground the ball before it rolled dead.
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