Word: fallout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1950s that our Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission working in Hiroshima observed an increased incidence of leukemia among individuals exposed to the atomic bomb--a puzzling observation because these cases did not emerge for several years after the detonations. There was also almost no understanding of the phenomenon called fallout...
Professor of Public Policy Martin A. Linsky from the Kennedy School of Government downplayed the immediate political fallout for the Republican party...
...While these two students epitomize the heinous fallout of a monster class, the small-scale implications of negligible student-teacher relations can prove just as detrimental to the student. Mendelsohn himself admits that the distance between him and his students in his Core course is glaring. "Someone will walk though the Yard and smile at me and I'll have no idea that they are in my class," he recalls...
...that Sudan has hosted terrorists, dabbled in chemical weapons and is conducting a genocidal civil war in the south." U.S. officials publicly maintain the attack was valid, but they've also retreated substantially from their original explanation of the attack. Sudan's tarnished reputation may have minimized the political fallout from the strike, but Mr. Idris's lawyers believe they may have enough evidence to take the government to court. Then again, a jury may not be too sympathetic to a plaintiff whose own experts concede that many of his business interests are linked with Sudan's Military Industrial Corporation...
...UTAH In March 1995, Republican senate president Lane Beattie, concerned about the excesses of mandatory minimums, introduced a bill to eliminate them in certain cases. Worried about the political fallout, he did so near midnight on the last day of the legislative session. The bill passed quietly, without debate, but victims' groups noticed. Though a public outcry followed, the G.O.P. Governor said he agreed with the bill and refused to veto...