These findings point up the extent to which innovation has become a life-and-death matter for corporations.
Guesses are no substitute for the certitude we need when it comes to such life-and-death matters.
With a half century of total war ending and something like peace breaking out politics loses its life-and-death drama.
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All of which may feel like life-and-death issues that go to the heart of our constitution and national identity.
Just think about how many veterans have led their comrades on life-and-death missions by the time they were 25.
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Just think about how many veterans have led their comrades on life-and-death missions by the time they were 25 years old.
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There are no actual life-and-death scenarios in the business world, but that is not why business leaders regularly fail to adapt under pressure.
That their children will be denied legal status at some point in the future will make no palpable difference to folks confronting a life-and-death situation now.
What does it take to make people in developed countries more aware of these life-and-death issues happening in what can seem like distant parts of the world?
The life-and-death question is whether these efforts and the largesse of Eli Broad and other patrons of science will be enough to let the U.S. lead the stem-cell revolution.
Britain was locked in a life-and-death struggle with Napoleon.
Today states make life-and-death decisions concerning criminal law.
Others, no doubt, are being held for battlefield acts that could not be proved absent pulling U.S. troops out of combat so they could testify (as if they had been agents painstakingly conducting a criminal investigation rather than soldiers engaged in life-and-death hostilities).
Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman -- whose office responded to the shooting at the Hermans' home -- said he believes the mother and her two children were in a life-and-death situation and she had no choice but to exercise her constitutional right to self-defense.
And those commanders in whom we've placed the trust to make life-and-death decisions and to defend our freedom should be given that same level of trust in determining what people they use and what jobs to perform the mission, and women have done this, and they're not using women today in Iraq as a social experiment.
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.
As much as purist free-marketers hate to admit it, when making a judgment on who should perform your surgery -a decision that can be the difference between life and death- price shopping is simply not the best way to go.
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It asks all the big philosophical questions - about life and death and the uncertain purpose of what goes on in between - but in a way that isn't limited to a particular place or era.
On the other hand, I have to say if you look at Netscape--with all their funding--they are in the same life and death struggle.
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.
Since then, residents of Newtown have been dealing with the arc of life in unimaginable ways -- of death and loss, of pain and suffering, of shock and horror, of beginning to heal.
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.
The Supreme Court usually gets the last word in these matters, regardless of whether one agrees with their decisions -- even matters of life and death, which many argue are the stakes in this health care debate.
As we watched these goings-on, my long-time collaborator Dr. Myron Cohen, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, likened it to situtions where physicians ask families to make life and death decisions for loved-ones on the basis of the best expert evidence available at the time.
She cited Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner, " with its frozen polar wastes and specters of "Nightmare Life-in-Death, " which as an 8-year-old child she had heard the poet recite in her father's parlor, and she made several dark allusions to the alchemical experiments of Paracelsus and Cornelius Agrippa, two Medieval figures with whom Percy had become obsessed during his studies at Oxford.
The war years saw him work on the prosthetics used to transform Roger Livesey into a balding, pot-bellied blusterer in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
Variable annuities are a form of life insurance that includes a lump-sum death benefit and tax-deferred investments, often mutual funds, which are supposed to provide income during a client's lifetime.
He became part of the established line-up with Bill Owen and Peter Sallis - Compo and Clegg - until 2000, when Compo died in the series following the real-life death of Owen.
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Getting a patent issued can be the difference between life and death for some businesses, and start-ups especially.
In a crash, that half-second could be the difference between life and death.
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