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Cocaine is fashionable because it is attractive: white, not dark; sniffed, not injected; consumed in a living room or a fashionable night-club, not in a dark alley.
And the economic debacles of the last few years seem to bear out Mikhail Gorbachev’s recent warning that “Western capitalism, too, deprived of its old adversary and imagining itself the undisputed victor and incarnation of global progress, is at risk of leading Western society and the rest of the world down another historical blind alley.”
So the blind alley of gene therapy has sent biotechnology heading full throttle down the road of drug development, based on the new genomics.
Right now, it more often feels like lurking in a spooky alley with a surveillance camera overlooking the scene.
For too many years the Baltic Sea was a blind alley on the political map of Europe – divided by the Iron Curtain.
For starters, there is the location: not some dark alley but inside his country’s consulate in Istanbul.
It doesn't matter; my little wood-house opens into the alley.
This was obviously a blind alley with no possible outlet.
Without it, I wouldn't have ventured today into such a blind alley as the Red Sea.""Is it indiscreet to ask how you discovered this tunnel?"
"Let's stay together until we're out of this blind alley."
She would have liked to see him more serious, and even on occasions more dramatic; as, for example, when she thought she heard a noise of approaching steps in the alley.
The coachman wiped his brow, put his leather hat between his knees, and drove his carriage beyond the side alley by the meadow to the margin of the waters.
To write to her father—it was too late; and perhaps, she began to repent now that she had not yielded to that other, when she heard the trot of a horse in the alley.
The walls trembled, the ceiling was crushing her, and she passed back through the long alley, stumbling against the heaps of dead leaves scattered by the wind.
Then in an ecstasy of heroism, that made her almost joyous, she ran down the hill, crossed the cow-plank, the foot-path, the alley, the market, and reached the chemist's shop.
If they have decided to make a fool of me, to let myself be seen with a letter in my hand, is to play the enemy's game.'Norbert's room was immediately above his sister's, and if Julien emerged from the alley formed by the pleached branches of the limes, the Count and his friends would be able to follow his every movement.
Three seconds later the ladder was under the lime alley, and Mathilde's honour was saved.
I'll give you a white alley!"Jim began to waver.
"White alley, Jim!
He put down his pail, took the white alley, and bent over the toe with absorbing interest while the bandage was being unwound.
Tom skirted the block, and came round into a muddy alley that led by the back of his aunt's cow-stable.
Don't you remember, Huck, 'bout me saying that?""Yes, that's so," said Huck."That was the day after I lost a white alley.
He found Joe Harper and Huck Finn up an alley eating a stolen melon.
The back door of that No. 2 is the door that comes out into that little close alley between the tavern and the old rattle trap of a brick store.
They hung about the neighborhood of the tavern until after nine, one watching the alley at a distance and the other the tavern door.
Nobody entered the alley or left it; nobody resembling the Spaniard entered or left the tavern door.
Nobody had entered or left the alley.
Huck stood sentry and Tom felt his way into the alley.
In his uneasiness Huck found himself drawing closer and closer to the alley; fearing all sorts of dreadful things, and momentarily expecting some catastrophe to happen that would take away his breath.
The alley door closed softly.
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