As Dwight D. Eisenhower, a man familiar with both war and politics, said, "This country could choke itself to death piling up military expenditures, just as surely as it can defeat itself by not spending enough for protection". Congress has already approved $6 billion for production of 4,300 Bradleys, and will be asked to approve close to $4 billion more over the next three years.
As the number of deaths piles up in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, surpassing more than 1,900 people this week, keeping patients quarantined has continued to be a problem.
The AIDS epidemic has been raging in Zambia for nearly two decades, and as the deaths pile up, so do the orphaned children.
Merely written, these deaths pile up on us like stones, as the dancers calmly execute Mr. Greenberg's off-kilter, oddly lush movement to a spare score of pop fragments, arranged by Ms. Parkins.
Reading Bob Herbert's poignant account of Sgt. Anthony G. Jones -- who witnessed the birth of his second son in Georgia and then was sent to his death (at age 25) in a third tour in Iraq -- brings one's blood to the boiling point ("Driving Blind as the Deaths Pile Up," column, Oct. 27).
Instead, we have endured decades of conservative grandstanding in support of abstinence-only education while the AIDS deaths pile up.
"The things with this is infections tally up at the beginning, but deaths pile up at the end".
Among the "NewNus" (the acronym didn't catch on) brought together for two shows at Saatchi's north London gallery were Ron Mueck, Cecily Brown (whose painting Puce Moment was described by one critic as "an aggressive explosion of sex organs"), and David Falconer, whose Vermin Death Stack was a 10ft pile of dead mice made of cast resin.
Journalists in Tacloban say the stench of death from piles of debris, upturned vehicles and remnants of what once were homes indicates that bodies remain trapped underneath.
