Word: fatale
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...really. Hazelwood had long been one of Exxon's most accomplished skippers and was acquitted of all major charges against him. Evidence presented at the trial suggested that the actions of the third mate on the bridge as well as the helmsman may have been responsible for the fatal course error. Unlike Hazelwood, who admitted to violating company drinking policy, both these men kept their jobs. Hazelwood, in fact, may be uniquely qualified as an instructor. No one has a more intimate -- or more painful -- understanding of the course material. Cadets should find him a teacher with something...
...FATAL RETREAT: It was shortly after 5:30 on the fateful afternoon of April 29 when a still containable riot turned into a rout. Roughly 25 police officers were trying to restrain an angry crowd at an intersection in South Central L.A.; an attempt to make arrests prompted shouts, rock throwing and pushing and shoving between the police and the mob. An amateur videotape taken at the scene recorded a voice shouting over the police loudspeaker, "I want everybody out of here. Florence and Normandie. Everybody. Get out. Now." As the outnumbered police drove off, the rioting roared...
...either at the fund raiser or in transit. "The command structure was not in place. They didn't keep in touch," said deputy fire chief Donald Anthony, who had 20 fire engines in place waiting for police escorts. To law-enforcement strategists like Beene, the long delay was fatal. "You think one hour isn't very long? One hour in a crowd situation is like weeks or months," he said. Says L.A. County sheriff Sherman Block: "It's my belief that a show of force at ((the intersection where the riot started)) might not have stopped everything but certainly would...
According to the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, there were 4054 accidents involving motor vehicles in Cambridge in 1990. Of these accidents, for were fatal, 1199 involved injuries and 2051 involved property damage...
...most common complication of such transplants, though, is graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD), a potentially fatal reaction in which the foreign tissue tries to reject its new body (rather than the other way around). Researchers have found that thalidomide seems to keep that reaction in check. Compared with other treatments for GVHD, the drug is relatively benign -- as long as the patient is absolutely certain she's not pregnant...