Word: fallout
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Politically, the fallout from Israel's ouster would have endangered both the Arab and the Palestinian cause. In the aftermath of all-out war in Lebanon and the massacres in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, the Arabs are riding a wave of sympathy the world over. But the new-found perception of Israel as a Goliath surrounded by poor little David's would likely have shifted had the Jewish state been bullied...
...month after it was linked to eleven deaths, mostly among patients who were poor candidates for the drug. If it had been promoted less zealously, perhaps fewer of these patients would have urged their doctors to prescribe it. Predicts Industry Watcher Michael Smith of Pharmaceutical Data Services, Inc.: "The fallout from Oraflex is that companies will become more circumspect...
...computer, executing 2 million programming instructions per second, takes 20 seconds to analyze the effects of a ten-kiloton blast. Towns are reduced to rubble. Forests erupt in flames, represented by flickering red dots. Temperature, humidity and wind speed must be reckoned with; they affect the way fallout will blow and how fast a fireball will spread. "You get a real feeling for the dynamics and time pressures of combat," says Lieut Colonel Crissman...
...California they are fast becoming fashionable. Recession Ware bracelets, offered in novelty shops for $2.50 each, are the latest gimmick from master Marketer Stephen Askin, 43, of Los Angeles. During the Iranian hostage crisis, Askin sold Ayatullah Dartboards. More recently he has developed aerosol cans of water labeled Nuclear Fallout Repellant. Even zanier is his Deeley Bobber, a glitter-coated headset that looks like insect antennae. In the past ten weeks an estimated 2 million bobbers have been sold at $2.99 each...
...avoided prickly questions of national policy. The American participants-Harvard University Cardiologists Bernard Lown and James Muller and Tufts University Professor John Pastore-discussed such topics as the effects of a one-megaton bomb on a city, medical care for nuclear victims and the long-term effects of radiation fallout. The Soviets likewise avoided ideological confrontations. Said Yevgeni Chazov, one of President Leonid Brezhnev's physicians: "We have come here openly and honestly to tell the people about our movement, whose main objective is the preservation of life on earth...