From today’s edition of the Los Angeles Times (December 29, 2004):
“Tsunami Death Toll Hits 60,000”,
by Richard C. Paddock and Mark Magnier
Tragic news, indeed. But the disaster’s influence is also spreading throughout the realm of international news reporting. To wit, there’s this example of borderline-tasteless syntax from the very same paper:
“28 Die in Wave of Insurgent Attacks in Iraq”,
by Edmund Sanders
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the mother of all WMD’s (Waves of Mass Destruction)