Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This means that most students also understand the fatal flaw in the NC model: the assumed reliability of the network itself. Students who use the Internet for Web browsing and e-mail can live with "Site Not Found" and "Mail Server Unavailable" errors most of the time...
After the Kikwit outbreak, health officials stepped up the search for the virus' natural reservoir--an animal that can house the microbe and not suffer ill effects, or at least not fatal ones. Last June, U.S. researchers collected thousands of tissue samples from insects and small animals living around Kikwit. But tests on the specimens at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have come up empty...
Acting Cambridge Police Commissioner Walter Boyle was buried in a funeral ceremony earlier this month after suffering a fatal heart attack on February 3, according to a report in the Cambridge...
Wallace juggles all this and more with dizzying complexity. You can sign on for the long haul or wait for some post-Pynchon academic to parse it out. Or you can just wade in, enjoy Wallace's maximalist style and hope that unlike the fatal film, Infinite Jest, the novel won't ... ARRRRRRGH...
...Technically, the hold is a Senator's request to be notified before a bill comes up for a vote--but the requester has the right to remain anonymous. Increasingly, holds are used to stall legislation or nominations that otherwise would easily pass. And in the Senate, delay can be fatal. The insurance bill, which seeks to reform allegedly unfair industry practices, boasted an almost evenly bipartisan list of 44 co-sponsors. But when chief sponsors Republican Nancy Kassebaum and Democrat Ted Kennedy started making inquiries last September about scheduling a floor vote, majority leader Bob Dole informed them that someone...