Word: fallouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring day in 1950, U.S. scientists perfecting techniques for tracking Soviet atomic tests packed a conventional bomb with radioactive material -- probably lanthanum-140 -- and exploded it in the atmosphere near Los Alamos, New Mexico. No injuries were reported, but the fallout reached populated areas at least 70 miles away...
...especially cynical interpretation of the actions of these representatives would have to concede that there were other factors in their failure to be new and different. Washington is a city unaccustomed to change. The last time it saw such a changing of the guard was the post-Watergate fallout of 1974. Two things were significant about 1974 that cannot be said of the class of 1992. First, many of the 1974 newcomers defeated incumbents; in 1992 many won open seats. Second, the 1974 incoming class were quickly swept up in the reforms that reshaped Congress during the 1970s, an earth...
Unfortunately, that's what Khrushchev thought. Three years later he was involuntarily retired, scratching his head and watching his successor undo his "bold" idea. Thirty years later, as hordes of Kennedy School professors stake their careers on cleaning up the economic fallout of such "hairbrained schemes" (as those who deposed Khrushchev referred to this plan, among others), their president is preparing to embark on the same course of bureaucratic juggling...
Israeli-P.L.O. Fallout...
...Tuberculosis is up 35% since 1985 among kids under 15. The Centers for Disease Control says this is fallout from the recent TB increase among adults, who are now infecting their children...