During my high school days in the 1970s, school counselors advised against engineering because it was a dead-end profession.

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As for members of the military who are as dead set against repealing the law as McCain, Hill said it might be time for them to find another line of work.

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The Dole campaign pitches its candidate's recent centrist moves on abortion (she's against it but says the debate is a "dead end") as being about inclusiveness.

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Among Florida Republicans, Mark Foley came out for it, while Lincoln Diaz-Balart was dead set against.

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The idea of folk games is a dead end, rhetorically: people have knocked balls against walls for many years, but it is possible to have Breakout clones.

FORBES: The system works. Sort of. Sometimes.

No. 2, I think the apology has already been given in the way of 500, 000 dead American soldiers in the Union Army who made it clear that they didn't approve of slavery and fought against it.

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