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  • So when Robert Bolin, the new West Virginia State Director of Information Services, a former IBM employee and lawyer specializing in IT outsourcing contracts, assembled 35 programmers to inquire, "What does everybody think about outsourcing?" they thought they were dead-men walking.

    Donna Conroy: West Virginia IT Pros Mount First US Resistance to Outsourcing 2010

  • So when Ron Bolin, the new West Virginia State Director of Information Services, a former IBM employee and lawyer specializing in IT outsourcing contracts, assembled 35 programmers to inquire, "What does everybody think about outsourcing?" they thought they were dead-men walking.

    Donna Conroy: West Virginia IT Pros Mount First US Resistance to Outsourcing 2010

  • So when Ron Bolin, the new West Virginia State Director of Information Services, a former IBM employee and lawyer specializing in IT outsourcing contracts, assembled 35 programmers to inquire, "What does everybody think about outsourcing?" they thought they were dead-men walking.

    Donna Conroy: West Virginia IT Pros Mount First US Resistance to Outsourcing 2010

  • Both programs will also rely on corporate visa programs like H1-b and L-1 to ensure these foreign workers can be temporarily stationed in US jobs in order to be trained by "dead-men walking" American workers.

    Donna Conroy: A Jobs Program Global Outsourcers Can Believe In: USAID Trains Sri Lankans and Armenians to Displace Americans Donna Conroy 2010

  • Under these bright lights glittered the faces of peoples whose glory had long since passed away, whose very civilizations were dead-men whose ancestors had heard the news of victory in Babylon, in Nineveh, in Bagdad, in Tyre, a hundred generations before; men whose ancestors had seen a flower-decked, slave-adorned cortege drift with its wake of captives down the avenues of Imperial

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • Under these bright lights glittered the faces of peoples whose glory had long since passed away, whose very civilizations were dead-men whose ancestors had heard the news of victory in Babylon, in Nineveh, in Bagdad, in Tyre, a hundred generations before; men whose ancestors had seen a flower-decked, slave-adorned cortege drift with its wake of captives down the avenues of Imperial Rome ....

    The Beautiful and Damned 1918

  • Thus the herd was rapidly driven between the rows of dead-men I have described.

    Snow Shoes and Canoes The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Over the following days we practiced basic movement in crampons, self arrest for all fall types, team arrest in rope teams of 2, knots and roping up as teams, crevasse rescue systems and practice + pickets and dead-men, route finding and assessing conditions and risks, short climb up a vertical wall, belaying, running protection ´ideas´ and building anchors with ice screws and a too-quick overview of multi-pitch (uselessly quick).

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • The land for miles in every direction must have been littered with the bodies of the dead-men, women, children-all of them sacrificed on the flaming altars of Nephite iniquity.

    Latest Articles LDS Living Magazine 2009

  • You're all the fiscal equivalent of dead-men walking "

    In Remarks On Bailout, Obama Sharpens Up Attacks On Bush, CEOs 2009

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