Sounds bad, especially if you see it through the eyes of Business Insider, which has been running a dead pool of the masthead for the last month.

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The house she and dad (Tate Donovan) are renting in Los Angeles once belonged to the old-time movie star Julia Draycock ("old-time" being relative: she was discovered dead in her swimming pool 25 years ago, shortly after re-emerging from an unexplained absence).

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He scooped the dead stuff out of the pool with a net while he sold a guy in Dublin an insurance policy, or something.

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Scott's spooky lighting design is a key element of the theatrical presentation on Marsha Ginsberg's dead leaf-strewn, rundown swimming pool set.

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Early Sunday, the story broke with the sad news that Rodney King was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool in Rialta, California.

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The IAEA statement was released hours after Tepco temporarily shut down the cooling system in the second unit's spent fuel pool following the discovery of dead rodents near a transformer.

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The most popular pool is the salt pool, salted to the density of the Dead Sea, in which at least two people at all times were on their backs floating.

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They saw the pool but kept behind Gerry as he got the front door open and walked into hot dead air.

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