He became dizzy and vomited several times before slipping into a comatose state.

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The prime minister said he held the "rather quaint view" that "protesting is something you, on the whole, should do on two feet, rather than lying down - in some cases in a fairly comatose state".

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Alon Friedman, a neurological director at Israel's Soroka Medical Centre in Beersheba, said the findings suggested that even in Mr Sharon's comatose state, "he might be listening, and some important information goes into his brain and is being processed".

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With comprehensive federal-immigration reform comatose, state and local politicians are rushing to do something about illegal immigration.

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Loose credit and attendant uncontrolled expansion of the money supply, for example, have kept comatose inefficient state-owned enterprises alive and reignited raging inflation.

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