Some multinationals are taking a different tack, hiring as many as three workers for each skilled position, to ensure that replacements are on hand when trained workers die.

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Shiva instead commands that Darika will die at the hand of the goddess Kali.

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Tragically, some of those living with these illnesses die at their own hand after a long, difficult battle.

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Engineers designed the dies on paper, and skilled craftsmen used hand-operated machinery to cut the die from a hunk of steel.

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On the other hand, there are still 40, 000 women every year who die of breast cancer.

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We are staring at a wall of handsome, hand-tooled saddles: English, Western, and, for the die-hards, a version of a buttero saddle in rich, leather-trimmed suede, filled with jute, horsehair, and hay over a heavy wooden yoke.

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Cell phone die-hards all perform this same sleight-of-hand.

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On the other hand, no James Bond theme -- not "Goldfinger, " not "Live and Let Die, " not "Nobody Does It Better, " not even anything by Matt Munro, A-ha or Madonna -- has ever won an Oscar, so 007 is overdue.

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