Or that escaping LA for Europe after you were caught it'd vanish with new scenery?
Even if global temperatures were to be held to an increase of 2 degrees Celsius, the study notes, as much as 40percentt of the Amazon would perish within a century; with 3 degrees of warming, up to 75percentt would vanish; and with 4 degrees, 85percentt would die.
Were these rates the same, the debate over how to treat carried interest would vanish, along with much of the disparity between tax rates for the rich and people like Mr. Buffett's secretary.
Men -- lovers, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, the faces you were accustomed to seeing at parties, bars, in symphony orchestras, in dance companies and behind the counters of familiar stores -- would vanish, often with terrifying speed.
When carmaker General Motors essentially ran out of money last fall, there was quite a lot of commentary suggesting that if it went bankrupt, it would vanish along with hundreds of thousands of jobs.
I figured if anyone who mattered caught me spinning a wedding, my cache would vanish immediately, right along with my shot at DJing a Lindsay Lohan and James Francorgysted orgy at Chateau Marmont.
Maybe in person they would seem just like any other animal and my imagined connection with them would vanish.
Which is more likely: that such attitudes would simply vanish with the stroke of Lyndon Johnson's pen, or that they would continue, admittedly weakened and attenuated, in different forms?
If I could just follow their 50 steps to happiness, my problems would vanish like dissolvable Citalopram and all would be right with the world.
