Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then the Secret Service committed what could have turned out to be a fatal mistake. It made no effort to detain her further or to place her under surveillance while Ford was in California. Its officials have refused to explain why. A Washington spokesman would say only that the interview showed she "was not of sufficient protection interest to warrant surveillance." San Francisco police believe, however, that the federal agents were satisfied with Moore's claim that she had needed a gun for fear of reprisal from radicals for informing on their activities to the FBI. The agents were also...
...fatal flaw in U.S. government foreign policy since WW II has been its unilateral attempt to solve these problems. Where many are concerned many should and must have a voice. Six Arab states and the Soviet Union have already condemned the Kissinger-Ford peace pact. Many others are almost certain to do likewise...
...Beatles have just released Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which critics are hailing as the best pop album ever, the ultimate achievement in rock and roll. Bob Dylan is in the hospital recovering from his near fatal motorcycle accident. Someone has brought along a tape of the record for Dylan to listen to. Dylan listens for about 5 minutes, then snaps, "Turn that shit...
...ends Ian Fleming's delightful spy novel, From Russia with Love, with James Bond's fate left hanging. Agent 007, of course, survives to brave new dangers in Doctor No, in which it is revealed that he had been dealt a near fatal dose of fugu poison. "It comes from the sex organs of the Japanese globe-fish," an eminent neurologist tells Bond's boss. "It's terrible stuff and very quick...
...strokes of the pen. Keynesian faith in fiscal (tax-and-spending) policy to end recessions and damp down inflations is questioned in a chapter titled "The New Economics at High Noon." Galbraith argues that the reluctance of governments to raise taxes or cut spending during booms proves "the fatal inelasticity of the Keynesian system." Monetary policy is dismissed as "a perverse and unpredictable lever" and Economist Milton Friedman's carefully documented thesis that rapid expansion of a nation's money supply contributes to inflation is rejected as "breathtakingly simple...