Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dying each year in drunken-driving accidents, the trend slowed down. Since 1976, 20 states have hoisted the drinking age back up by one to three years. The payoff has been dramatic: in at least eight states, a higher drinking age was followed by a 28% reduction in nighttime fatal accidents involving 18-to 21-year-olds...
...arrogance define the American attitude toward Mexico. The exceptions have been a few lucid and generous men and a handful of poets, historians, teachers, scientists, humanists. None have appreciably influenced popular opinion, let alone Washington. This is regrettable: the perpetuation of this attitude is and will continue to be fatal for the U.S. and for the whole continent. It is hardly necessary to recall the case of Fidel Castro, whom Washington pushed toward Moscow (or to whom, at least, the U.S. gave the pretext for falling into Soviet arms). Without firing a shot, the Soviet Union obtained what Napoleon...
Despite the signal, the Argentines allowed a fatal day to pass before returning to the scene. A high Argentine naval official says that the destroyers were too far away, and the seas too rough, to permit a speedy rescue-explanations the British dismiss. For reasons unknown, the British Defense Ministry decided to keep silent about the secret message. Said a British intelligence source last week: "Those bloody fools threw away an ace card to satisfy their appetite for secrecy. As a result we were denounced as killers...
...screw, in an exhaust vent of the suit's oxygen supply system. If the fragment had been in the pure oxygen area and caused a spark (by hitting a wall, for example), it might have touched off a catastrophic flash fire, killing Lenoir and possibly ripping a fatal hole in Columbia's sides as well. In fact, a suit did catch fire in a test at Houston two years ago; fortunately no one was wearing it. It was so incinerated that not enough was left to pin down the cause...
...almost too late. When Clark arrived at the hospital, his heart was pumping one liter of blood per minute, one-fifth the normal rate. Surgery was set for 8 a.m. Thursday. Clark had already been approved by the hospital's selection committee. In addition to suffering from a fatal heart condition with no alternative treatment, he more than met the criteria for psychological stability and a strong will to live. "This man was worth waiting for," said Committee Member Peg Miller...