Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than at any point in the postwar period, the U.S. seems to be on the defensive in a dangerous world. For Jimmy Carter, that impression could be politically fatal. One reason he is slipping in the polls and stumbling in the primaries is the economy, but another is that the Administration so often seems to be dithering in its effort to regain control over events abroad. Yet his rivals offer very few alternative solutions. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott sent this assessment...
...relatively rare B-negative blood type. The hectic search yielded 15 liters (about 32 pints) of blood necessary for an operation to excise the spleen: according to his Egyptian doctors, the organ had grown so bloated by midweek that there was a possibility it could burst in a fatal hemorrhage. The terse clinical diagnosis of New York Hospital's Dr. Benjamin Kean, who flew to Cairo on Wednesday to take part in the surgery: "He is not just sick, but very sick...
...fact that Ford Motor Co. had to come to Winamac, Ind., and defend itself on a criminal charge would put all large corporations on notice. Corporations have to be responsible citizens; they cannot pollute our waters, pollute our atmosphere or put out a defective product that can be fatal...
...working 15 hours a day on Fu Manchu, having just taken over the direction of the film. They are delivered in front of a wife who does not tire of saying that her husband "is only happy when he is working. To give up work would be fatal to Peter's mental state. A beach for him is an ideal which when realized is never as good as the anticipation...
...Conservative strategy this winter corresponded to their strategy of last spring, a fatal mistake. The voters in Ontario, presented with a budget imbalanced in favor of Western Canada--Clark's electoral backbone--turned sour on the Tories. Even Ontario's Conservative premier, William Davis, criticized the austerity budget as unfair. The traditionally divided Tories thus repeated history by flailing at their own flag, leaving Clark with a tattered Tory...