Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western aircraft can traverse Soviet airspace. All passenger planes are tracked carefully by radar to ensure that they stick to specific and often very narrow air corridors, which twist and turn around militarily sensitive areas. As some navigational maps warn, the penalty for straying off course can be fatal. Planes flying from Scandinavia dare not approach Moscow located the north, where secret Soviet missile-testing facilities are located...
...million profit turned into a $3 million loss. Another loss is forecast for the third quarter because not all of the software will be ready until October. President Gary Friedman admits that falling behind in the current market can be devastating, but insists it will not be fatal. Says he: "We still think there's a window of opportunity...
...hose him away. And at an airfield in New Jersey, Pilot Grace McGuire, who bears an eerie resemblance to the late Amelia Earhart, will assemble a 1936 Lockheed Electra 10E, the kind of plane Earhart used, with the intention of next year completing the famed barnstormer's fatal last flight in the Pacific. She plans to take only equipment identical to that on Earhart's plane. Her fuel will give her 21 hours of flying for the 2,556-mile first leg from Lae, New Guinea, to Rowland Island in mid-Pacific, which allows "not much reserve...
...vast majority of plague cases can now be cured, if diagnosed quickly enough. Left untreated, however, the illness is fatal in more than half the cases, developing into either the highly contagious pneumonic plague or septicemia (blood poisoning), which caused all six of this year's plague deaths...
...Donna and Steven Roehl and Debbie and Maury Fisher, having a baby is a risky business. The Roehls both carry the gene for Niemann-Pick disease, a metabolic disorder that has already taken the life of their first child. The Fishers are carriers of Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal ailment that afflicts their two-year-old son. For both couples, the odds are one in four that any child they bear will be defective. When the two wives became pregnant earlier this year, they intended to undergo amniocentesis, a test to determine if the fetuses were normal. Each planned...