Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airline industry could face large insurance-premium increases as the result of this year's string of fatal accidents. The crash of a Japan Air Lines 747 is expected to cost the carrier and its insurance company as much as $200 million in compensation to victims' families. Last week Delta Air Lines, facing heavy costs from its L-1011 crash in Dallas, asked a U.S. District Court to require the Federal Government to share responsibility. The carrier contends that federal air-traffic controllers were at fault in the crash because they failed to warn the pilot sufficiently of bad weather...
...were both over 6 ft. tall. If they were looking for an easy mark, the 5-ft. 9-in. Van Houten, who was dressed casually in jeans and a sweatshirt, must have looked the part. Whatever it was that brought Edmund Perry to the park that night, it proved fatal. Witnesses, say the police, recall Jonah running home shortly after the attack occurred, shouting, "We got a D.T.!," a slang term for detective...
...year-old woman told it last week, the old man persistently refused to marry her, without explaining why. When she married another man in 1978, Pedro moped and pined. The last image of Pedro, from another former maid, Ines Mehlich, was his valediction as he left on his fatal seaside trip with the Bosserts in 1979: "I'm going to the beach because my life is ending...
...testimony, the justices ruled, violated the defendants' constitutional protections against self-incrimination. If allowed to stand, the decision would deal a fatal blow to the prosecution. To many it was seen as leading to Ver's acquittal. Ver's lawyer, Antonio Coronel, said that he intends to move for dismissal of the charges, declaring that "you don't defend yourself against nothing." A possible appeal by the prosecution is under study...
...could also be affected. Toxic shock could strike with appalling speed, progressing in a matter of hours from fever and dizziness to a strange, sunburn-like rash and a drop in blood pressure so severe that the victim might go into shock. For about 4% of patients, TSS proved fatal. Scientists quickly linked the disease to the use of tampons, particularly the "superabsorbent" variety, but the reasons for the tampon connection remained obscure. Last week a team of Harvard scientists finally offered an explanation...