He was dead as a doornail and while the digital record of his death was hard to find, there was ample evidence in printed books and newspapers that he died and Mark, the chief inheritor of his fortune, knew very well that he was dead.

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The possibility of further deficit spending appears remote, if not dead-as-a-doornail.

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