One molecule inside a cell will kill it.

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Asus tried to kill two birds with one stone when it created the Transformer AiO, but wound up building a giant brick.

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And in creating a self-sustaining execution, nothing builds a more solid foundation for an enterprise, and nothing can kill one faster than failing to do it completely.

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In ensuing months each successive version tweaked the design and was embedded with a kill date to stop it from hampering the next one.

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Whatever one thinks of that project, the NRC was not the way to kill it.

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Whether taxes kill jobs is one of the longest-running arguments in politics, and it's about to get tested in a big way in this region.

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One reason Cafta is in deep trouble is that the U.S. sugar lobby wants to kill it, because the agreement would allow an increase in sugar imports equal to 1% of the U.S. market.

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"He just did it again, " says one conservative House Democrat, marveling at a politician who is extremely hard to kill.

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