Singapore's 81-year-old founding father Lee Kuan Yew wants to boost the island's retirement age, saying if he had to retire at 62, it would have been " a dead loss, " local media reported Tuesday.
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A displaced worker laments the loss of " the iron rice bowl, " the lifetime guarantee of a job, a place to live and food even if the factory where one worked was a dead loss.
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Eventually, Merrill became involved with an actor named Peter Hooten, who convinced the poet to finance a video version of " Sandover " that ended up costing $ 800, 000 and was more or less a dead loss.
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Proponents of the amendment said that the federal timber program in Tongass is a dead loss for taxpayers, costing some $ 30 million annually, and noted that the Forest Service faces an estimated $ 900 million road maintenance backlog in the forest.
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:: : When it comes to arguments about which Brazilians have more white blood than which other Brazilians, I can't help but feel that the whole thing is a dead loss and the encyclopedia would be better off without any of that stuff.
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Every time I start a new job, someone leads me around and shows me all the people there, and maybe they remember me but for me it's a dead loss : they don't individually attach to anything yet . Tamfang 07 : 21, 12 September 2007 ( UTC)
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The shareholder was informed that this incurred a dead loss of five or six thousand [ pounds ] a year, but that when the standard-gauge rail was laid between the Yeovil Joint [ i . e . Town ] station and Pen Mill, the standard-gauge stock would be used on the branch.
