Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news that a competitor has beaten them to market with a hot new product. But something like that happened last week when the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had approved commercial production of a new vaccine against hepatitis B, a virus that causes an incurable and sometimes fatal liver disease and strikes an estimated 200,000 new victims every year in the U.S. Developed by Merck, the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant, in partnership with Chiron, a small (1985 sales: $6 million) biotech firm in Emeryville, Calif., the product is the first genetically engineered vaccine approved for human...
This will not do. Horowitz wears tails, Roger Clemens a Red Sox uniform, and thriller writers, according to tradition, are caparisoned in creased outerwear, lurking beside bridge abutments in the fog. Archer is radiant and fogproof. With a lesser talent, this miscalculation could have been fatal. After all, when one of Eric Ambler's down-at-the-heels protagonists makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees...
...Force announced that a mechanical glitch, rather than a major design flaw, caused its Titan 34D rocket to explode just 700 ft. above its launching pad at California's Vandenberg Air Base last April 18. Loose insulation, the result of shoddy quality control, was blamed for permitting a fatal burn-through. The Air Force predicted that the Titan, capable of lifting up to 35,000-lb. payloads, would be ready to fly again by early next year...
Medical authorities were divided in their explanations of fatal reactions to cocaine. "The most likely explanation," said Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a cocaine expert at Harvard Medical School, "is that this man was extremely sensitive to cocaine, as some people are sensitive to almost any drug. It's not clear how rare this is, but it's not common." Mitchell Rosenthal, director of New York City's Phoenix House, a drug rehabilitation group, disagreed. He thinks that cocaine may frequently cause death by cardiac arrest. "Over the past three years," he said, "the evidence has been coming out of medical examiners...
...around Washington in the early morning before the athlete's death and accompanied him back to his dormitory at 5 a.m., about an hour before he was stricken. Arthur Marshall, state's attorney for Prince Georges County, vowed to develop a manslaughter case if the dealer who sold the fatal cocaine can be identified. Said he: "Just remember the Belushi case...