Since she is still talking about you dead sibling as if it happened yesterday (and, incidentally, doing so in a way that gives the impression she wishes her other two children who are standing right there had died instead).

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"The difference is you're talking about somebody dead in the vehicle or dying very quickly, or somebody being able to get out of the vehicle themselves, " said David Ward, director general of the London-based FIA Foundation for auto safety, which supports the Euro and Latin NCAP programs.

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In others, they are installing playful prompts, like trivia games, to get workers talking in traditional conversational dead zones, such as elevators.

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On his blog, Mr Grillo also published a mocked-up film poster depicting Mr Bersani as a "Dead Man Talking", based on the 1950 Italian comedy, 47 Morto Che Parla.

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As Oz likes to say, Marcus Welby the kindly, accessible, but straight-talking television doctor is dead.

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The thought of this president wandering Nixon-like in the White House in the dead of the night talking to presidential portraits is a bit much.

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The movie is framed by and a good forty per cent of it is taken up with Thatcher meandering from one thing to another in her house, watching family videos, talking to her husband, Denis (Jim Broadbent), who has been dead for eight years.

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By the time the two got talking, Chrysler was no longer the funky Detroit company that in the 1980s had come back from the dead through then chief executive Lee Iacocca's sheer flair.

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We were sitting in the garden listening to the intoxicated hum of late-autumnal wasps, talking quietly and for a long time of Lajos and the children, as well as of Vilma, my dead sister.

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