• The chemical is used as the starting point for other drugs, including nicergoline, a treatment for senile dementia.

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  • No bills of any importance will also be accomplished in the Senate, with a senile old man called Harry Reid of Nevada.

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  • Their home together is suffused by memories of her abusive father, her apparently senile mother and decades of accumulated hurt, guilt and denial.

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  • Both women were said to be suffering from Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, which is characterised by such actions as compulsive hoarding of rubbish.

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  • The coup was medical: on November 6th 1987, the prime minister, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, gathered a council of seven doctors who pronounced Mr Bourguiba senile and incompetent.

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  • Perhaps he counts on the likelihood that his global audiences are too young to know differently, too old and senile to remember, or just too indifferent to have been paying attention.

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  • This raises problems for pensions (Japan has a pay-as-you-go system) and health care (the number of people with senile dementia is set to reach 2.6m in 2015, up from 1m in 1990).

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  • In 2002, after the Chilean supreme court ruled that senile dementia made him unfit to face trial, he was forced to resign his Senate seat too (even senators-for-life need to be compos mentis).

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  • The head of one remote village is reputed to be 109 years old and he says he has been trying to resign for 20 years, but that his only two surviving councillors are both senile.

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  • Herbert Molderings, a German art historian, believes that the provenance given at the time of sale was questionable: the collection, made by a Nazi businessman, was left to his widow, only to disappear from her estate after she became senile.

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  • Last July, social gaming startup Kixeye made what has to be the weirdest recruitment video in history, where thinly veiled stand ins depicted EA as a senile coot, Kabam as a soulless formulaic machine, and Zynga as a psychopathic child.

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  • The old man is gradually giving the nephew reason to believe that he is senile or crazy by the things he says or does, so that the nephew will be alarmed but not surprised when the old man appears to be stealing a car.

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  • Maybe he is senile.

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  • The man who is legendarily hands on and runs a global empire that, he said, employs 53, 000 people (of which the News of the World represented one percent, he pointed out) is surely not a senile old dodderer who was blissfully aware that dark arts being practice by his journalists.

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  • In his first political campaign for a seat as a circuit county judge, McCarthy published campaign literature falsely claiming that his opponent was 73, senile and guilty of financial corruption despite knowing that the gentleman was 66, in full control of his mental faculties and had never done anything that had so much as a whiff of corruption.

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