As the graveness of Dexter's condition sets in, Erik becomes determined to help find a cure; when the initial efforts fail and Erik's mother finds out about the friendship, the boys decide to run away to New Orleans in search of a remedy advertised in a tabloid newspaper.
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Agent Kellerman, in the front seat of the car, gave orders over the car's two-way radio to the lead vehicle in the procession " to the nearest hospital, quick ! " Hill was shouting as loudly as he could " To the hospital, to the hospital ! " En route to the hospital, Hill flashed a " thumbs-down " signal and shook his head from side to side at the agents in the follow-up car, signaling the graveness of the President's condition.
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The distinction can be useful in diachronic linguistics, as conditional sound changes often act differently on acute and grave consonants, consonants are highly likely to preserve their acuteness / graveness through sound change; and changes between acute and grave can often be well circumscribed . ( For example, palatalization applied to back grave consonants usually produces acute consonants . ) In this regard, the fact that articulations are included as " acute " is important because of the acoustic similarity between true palatal and palatalized coronal consonants and the fact that one often changes into the other.
