dies
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At a dangerous airfield in the mountains of South America where mail pilots making the best of primitive equipment fly under extremely hazardous conditions, a friend of Grant’s character named Joe dies trying to impress a comely visitor played by Jean Arthur.
If a person dies after Full Retirement Age and before age 70, the surviving spouse is entitled to receive a benefit based on the deceased’s primary insurance amount, including any delayed retirement credits earned up to the time of death, according to the National Social Security Advisors.
From MarketWatch
"There's a huge investment in raising that chick, and that investment is made by both of the parents. So when one of them is out following fishing vessels, if one of those parents is injured or dies, the chick back on the island will also die, because the one parent isn't enough to keep up feeding this one chick, and an investment that's taken them two years to lay an egg is completely lost."
From BBC
“A tree in the forest ecosystem may have two or three hundred years of incredibly important vital life after it dies.”
From Los Angeles Times
But Antony is manipulating the truth for his own ends, and at the end of the play—after Brutus has been defeated and dies by suicide—Antony calls him “the noblest Roman of them all,” who acted not out of envy like the other assassins but for “common good to all.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
