Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deep fitfulness over capital punishment. "It takes its toll psychologically, and that spills into nasty memos," says one Supreme Court law clerk. Last year in one dissent, Justice William Brennan was especially bitter. "The court has once again rushed to judgment," he wrote, "apparently eager to reach a fatal conclusion...
...disaster in Bhopal was the latest in a series of major industrial mishaps around the world, some with immediate fatal results, others with lingering, long-term consequences. Last week in Taiwan, leaking methane gas in a coal shaft triggered an explosion that killed 33 miners. Two weeks earlier, a liquefied-natural-gas explosion claimed 452 lives near a Mexico City shantytown. As the list of such man-made tragedies grows, concern is rising everywhere that industrial safety standards are often higher in the U.S. than in developing countries, and that some U.S. firms may have opened plants abroad to take...
...industries produce about 275 million gal. of gasoline, 2.5 million lbs. of pesticides and herbicides, and nearly 723,000 tons of dangerous wastes. Some 250,000 loads of hazardous materials, chiefly petrochemicals, are shipped across the country by rail or road. Considering the volume of this production and movement, fatal accidents are few, just eight deaths last year. One reason, contends the chemical industry, is its elaborate and expensive safety precautions. Says Bruce Karrh, a physician who is also vice president for safety, health and environmental affairs for Du Pont: "We began by manufacturing explosives, and we have retained...
...celebrated murder occurred three weeks ago. Ben Wilson, 17, a senior at Simeon Vocational High School, was an extraordinarily talented forward on the state champion basketball team and ranked academically near the top of his class. As he walked near Simeon one afternoon with his girlfriend, he made the fatal mistake of brushing past a boy who is said to be hooked up with a gang. "He pushed me," the angry young man told his pal. "Pop him." The friend drew his revolver and shot the 6-ft. 8-in. star twice in the chest. That weekend in the Simeon...
...People would be mobile and awake, and start noticing the effects of the gas before they get a fatal dose," Crouch said yesterday in reference to a potential Cambridge disaster, adding that a victim would have to "stand in a very narrow stream of this stuff [for several] minutes" before dying...