This cavalcade of debilitating financial developments must clearly render "dead-on-arrival" any further attempt by President Bush to certify that the former Soviet Union is creditworthy and thus eligible for additional U.S. taxpayer-underwritten credit guarantees or investment insurance (read, Overseas Private Investment Corporation coverage).

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"I'm pretty sure that we have two DOAs" -- the term for dead on arrival -- "on the street, " the wounded firefighter said.

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Brown-Vitter, like Sanders-Sherman, is dead on arrival given the current political climate, but it will be interesting to see the results if it comes to a vote.

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However, even with those concessions the proposal is viewed as dead on arrival in the Republican-dominated House of Representatives.

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Republicans know the measure is dead on arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate, but they're trying to score political points by keeping the issue front and center in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling upholding the law.

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Yesterday the team highlighted top-down zombie survival shooter Dead on Arrival 2 and the enhanced graphical capabilities the new chipset brings to the table.

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Is it dead on arrival, or does it short-circuit what you expect to happen in the next 24, 36 hours?

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These are among the reasons we think the current crop of seven-inch tablets are going to be DOA, Dead on Arrival.

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"We think the current crop of seven-inch tablets are going to be DOA, dead on arrival, " said Mr. Jobs, criticizing their small screen, the Android operating system, their price, and lack of applications.

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