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By sloughing off thousands of make-work employees and ditching absurd union rules (which had banned computerization, for example), Murdoch made his newspapers cheaper for readers and more profitable for him.
Cars stalled, the light gone hazy under leafless sycamores-- nature's diction, as casual as you asking for a last glass of water, whispers in my ear words cotton-mouthed and sere as sloughing bark littering the roadway, rush hour traffic halting, faltering like my hand the day I signed away your flesh to the crematory fire ...
RSV infection of the lower respiratory tract cells results in cell death and sloughing into the lumen of the respiratory tree.
Severe membrane sloughing or blebbing seen to the right of the macrophage and identified by the arrows in Fig.