Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contributing to that catastrophe. The commission disclosed last week that just five days before the disaster, the Marshall managers had virtually dismissed the recurring flaws in the joint, deciding in an unsigned internal memo that "this problem is considered closed." Three of the Marshall officials who pushed the fatal launch are leaving their posts. Stanley Reinartz, the shuttle manager, last month asked for reassignment; George Hardy, deputy director of science and engineering, took early retirement at 55; Lawrence Mulloy, the booster manager, last week was shifted to another position at the center...
While generally appreciative of the opinions offered by your editors, I was appalled at the quality of the editorials in the May 7, issue. Benjamin M. Smith's "A Fatal Mistake" appeared promising enough. A student's view on college concentrations is usually insightful, especially for those readers who may be ambivalent about their own choices. However, Mr. Smith provided little wisdom at all, serving only to perpetuate inaccurate and damaging stereotypes. Though "Pre-Meds" may be overzealous in their quest for grades, I doubt that any would stoop so low as to steal a wallet. It wouldn't even...
...worker's error in removing control rods from the core of the SL-1 military experimental reactor near Idaho Falls caused a fatal steam explosion. Three servicemen were killed, one of them by impalement on a control rod. The deaths were the first fatalities in the history of U.S. nuclear reactor operations...
...despite the Eagles' power-hitting connection--featuring five solo taters--Harvard remained in the ballgame until the eighth inning, when Crimson relief pitcher Doug Sutton fell victim to a fatal home-run swat...
...later they were dead. "It was not a pleasant thing," Main recalls. "We lost over a hundred." Main's 480-swine herd had been hit by pseudorabies, a disease caused by a herpes virus that attacks the central nervous system of pigs, sheep, cattle and other animals. Nearly always fatal in young pigs, it causes symptoms ranging from disoriented wandering to skin lesions to convulsions, and can lead to reproductive failure in animals that survive. About 10% of the nation's 54 million swine are currently infected with the virus, agriculture officials say, and the cost to the pork industry...