Word: deadliest
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...Orleans last December, a mail handler shot his supervisor in the face, killing him, and wounded three other people. In Massachusetts in June 1988, a clerk killed a co-worker in the parking lot and later committed suicide. A postalworker in Edmund, Okla., went on the third deadliest killing spree in U.S. history in 1986, murdering 14 co-workers before killing himself...
Quake Day: In some ways the earthquake this week hit hardest some of the things which are most integral to the Northern California lifestyle: the freeway system, the Bay Bridge, a pedestrian mall in Santa Cruz. But despite the destruction (the quake was the second deadliest in U.S. history), San Franciscans were typically resilient, taking to the streets to help their neighbors, check out the damage or simply to do some exercise. It wasn't exactly a holiday, but then again, a day off from work or school isn't a common occurrence. Said Victoria Wong...
...passengers and crew members. Long before dawn, emergency rescue teams realized that everybody on the plane had perished, along with at least 22 people on the ground. In the grim history of aviation disasters, Flight 103 made the record books on two counts: as Britain's deadliest air crash and as Pan Am's worst accident involving only one plane...
...sound ridiculous, but it is irrational fears such as this that the staff falls prey to. The staff would halt scientists from using genetically-engineered animals until a morality discussion between Congress and the general public could take place. They forget that this would delay research into our deadliest disease, cancer, and the discovery of a cure that could save many lives...
Indeed, his critics dub him a master of the flip-flop, accusing him of committing the deadliest sin of American politics. As a House member he supported an array of measures that he now repudiates: the 1981 Reagan tax cut, the MX missile, an antiabortion amendment and a freeze in Social Security benefits. But Gephardt is unruffled by the charges of hypocrisy: "All great political leaders have changed their minds in response to changing circumstances. It's silly to be rigid on things when circumstances change...