"casualty"

[Joel S. Berson]

This is a prime example of how a context can make
the meaning of "casualty" less ambiguous.  (It
eliminates "casualties = those who have
died".  Unless one believes that the tourniquets enable resurrection.)

Joel

At 10/18/2010 02:55 AM, Paul Frank wrote:
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> From yesterday's Washington Post:
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>"Tourniquets have saved at least 1,000 lives, and possibly as many as
>2,000, in the past eight years. This soldier is almost certainly one
>of them. They're a big part of why only about 10 percent of casualties
>in these wars have died, compared with 16 percent in Vietnam."
>
>Paul
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