For them, even a few million in settlements or licensing fees could mean life-or-death.
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Perhaps it should establish a fund to pluck some of its less adept patrons from life-or-death circumstances.
Even a relatively developed democracy such as Mexico now finds itself in a life-or-death struggle against gangsters.
Given that healthcare involves life-or-death decisions, it is all the more important that this indispensable factor be present.
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Cutting down on shopping or television may make sense for plenty of people, but it's probably not a life-or-death decision.
Some have blamed K-27's Capt Pavel Leonov over the accident, but CWO Mazurenko says the captain faced a life-or-death choice.
Water, something we take for granted here in the U.S., is a life-or-death necessity in some disadvantaged countries in the world.
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Perrin occasionally arranges his material in quasi-fictional ways in order to flesh out a life-or-death situation or to illustrate an ecological point without endangering his animals.
The more realistic approach to life-or-death situations reflects "a different generation, and a different generation's approach, " says Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects, the film's U.S. distributor.
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She is also known for an ability to block out the noise of high-profile cases and make life-or-death decisions for her clients under intense pressure, those who know her said.
The top-tier investment banks have one talent that still commands huge fees: their brilliance at the life-or-death deal, such as a hostile takeover, a landmark privatisation or a public offering.
Larger companies rarely face life-or-death opportunities or threats.
Pretty slow decision-making in a life-or-death situation.
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Most people may be willing to pay a few thousand to get a premium test that gives them peace of mind that they have a correct interpretation of their genetic data, especially in life-or-death matters such as deciding on cancer treatments.
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New York is a fishbowl too, he acknowledged, but he expects it to be a different, less-intense environment than the talk-radio fueled Boston scene perhaps, he said, owing to the fact that there are two teams in every sport in New York, making each individual team's struggles less a matter of life-or-death.
We won't second guess his decision, since we don't know the exact terms of the deal (though apparently they were pretty bad), but you know what, TiVo is sort of in a life-or-death situation right now and might have to take what it can get if it wants to stick around.
He doesn't remember going through six rolls of film that day, but he remembers being shot at and is all too aware that a mere feet -- even inches -- separated him from life or death.
Whether the cause was childhood infection, difficult childbirth, heart attack, or pneumonia, the interval between recognizing that you had a life-threatening ailment and death was often just a matter of days or weeks.
The unlimited Marital Deduction allows for transfers to US citizen spouses during life or at death to remain tax-free.
The jury had two choices -- death by injection or life in prison.
If convicted, the 42-year-old faces the death penalty or life without parole.
In business ethics, we want to let people know that business is not a life or death battle, but something like a win-win result that lets all people benefit from commerce.
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"You should dial 999 in a life or death situation, if you fear for someone's physical well-being or if property is being damaged, " it adds.
If you don't have other assets to give away, some experts recommend you or the business purchase a life-insurance policy in a trust in order to shelter the death benefit from the estate tax.
The issue is whether you can apply the same line of thinking and working practice to more highly-skilled jobs, where it actually could be a matter of life or death, as opposed to a longer wait for lunch.
Yet the pact dates from an age when cross-border cooperation, or lack of it, was a matter of life and death.
There's no shortage of life, death or profundity in "The '59 Sound, " a mile-wide, top-down, hook-laden beast of a summer anthem.
Donors could also put the partnership shares in a charitable remainder trust, a popular estate-planning device in which donors or their beneficiaries draw income for life, with trust assets going after death to a charity.
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