Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, Andy Grundberg wrote in The New York Times an elegant, perfectly plausible but ultimately premature obituary about the death of post-modernism. It continues to flourish, commanding the attention of academics in spite of near-fatal attacks. Not only is it no longer laying siege to the establishment, it has become a part...
...rest of life. I don't even like using words--I mean, I use them--but I don't even like using words like nature or the environment, because they assume that there's a separation, that there's us and then there's that...And dangerous, probably fatal, consequences arise from that and we see them all the time...
...Crimson's inability to score was most apparent in the fatal third quarter. Heading into the second half, the game was tied, 5-5. Two late goals from Harvard sophomore Will Newell and freshman Chris Wojcik in final 1:20 of the first half evened the score...
...minorities have to work harder than others to achieve the same level of success. While this fact offends our notion of fairness, it is a truth that should not be covered over by the rubric of "diversity" or psychologized to the point of paralysis. The ideology of victimhood proves fatal to its victims if it is not quickly converted into a concept of self discipline and personal virtue. If anything, we need to cultivate a larger sphere in which individual responsibility and merit are unconditionally demanded and respected...
...crashes. Federal regulators were reluctant to recall the 5 million vehicles still on the road, but new tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finally persuaded them to act. The pickups' fuel tanks, says William Boehly, NHTSA's top enforcement official, "have a risk of fire in fatal side-impact crashes that is 2.4 times greater than that of Ford trucks. General Motors should therefore initiate a recall." About 300 people have died in crashes involving GM trucks. The callback, which could cost the automaker as much as $1 billion, is a request and not an order...