Once the beetles hit a tree, it's as good as dead within five years.

WSJ: Mass. creates quarantine zone to contain insect

Mr Netanyahu is earnestly assuring potential rightist renegades that Wye is as good as dead.

ECONOMIST: Israel

For most people, all this would mean a political career that is as good as dead.

CNN: PARTY ON THE MOVE

Arty was convinced that she had no interest in him, that as far as little Meredith was concerned he was as good as dead.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

Another 353 coal plants may be as good as dead.

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The 11-year-old Doha round of global trade negotiations, which could add 0.5% a year to global GDP by opening up new markets, is as good as dead.

ECONOMIST: International trade

And dazed and trapped, he was as good as dead.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Signs Repeal of Don��t Ask, Don��t Tell

To my family, I would be as good as dead.

NEWYORKER: The House Behind a Weeping Cherry

With President Barack Obama speaking out against the Stop Online Piracy Act and a looming Internet blackout to protest the act, it looks like SOPA is as good as dead.

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After all, the rationale is simple: Even though it's hard to pick winners this early in the industry cycle, your chances of picking losers are incredibly good as the dotcom dead pile up.

CNN: Playing the IPO Game

"Microsoft needs to come to the market with an experience that is at least as good as Apple's, or they are dead, " he says.

FORBES: Magazine Article

As is traditional in this kind of story the phones are dead, so the good people of Castle Rock are on their own.

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