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

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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.

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