Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right to become the first AIDS patient to receive a baboon bone-marrow transplant. He overcame the last bureaucratic hurdle in August, when the Food and Drug Administration agreed to allow Getty, and Getty alone, to undergo the procedure. Then in the fall, he developed potentially fatal pneumocystis pneumonia, which postponed the transplant until December...
...Gramm is hedging his bets, which may prove to be a fatal mistake. Rather than concentrate solely on Iowa, he is campaigning hard in several other early but lightly contested elections in the hope of stockpiling delegates elsewhere. The strategy has a price: Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a Dole backer, has criticized Gramm for campaigning in Louisiana, which plans to steal the limelight from Iowa by holding caucuses a week earlier, on Feb. 6. Gramm recently spent a weekend in Alaska, where he courted voters by himself...
...news would have been devastating enough. Had he been simply a young father with an adoring wife, a precious three-year-old daughter and so much to live for, his death would have seemed unfathomable. But because Sergei Grinkov was Prince Charming on and off the ice, his fatal heart attack at the age of 28 last week is agonizingly tragic, not just for the millions who have watched him and his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva perform but especially for the close-knit skating community that had come to believe in the fairy tale...
...site is more choked by red tape than Rocky Flats, in part because of its severe contamination problems. Plutonium is so toxic that inhaling a fraction of a gram can be fatal. At Rocky Flats there are 14 tons of this silver-gray metal spread all over the place. Aging buildings are tainted by plutonium spills from leaking pipes, valves and containers, and from compartments known as "infinity rooms" because their level of radioactivity is so high. Barrels of radioactive waste are stacked 15 ft. high. Fields contaminated with radioactive oil are covered by only a layer of asphalt...
...bucking broncos. "Some of these prisoners are from the big city and have never been on an animal before," notes Dan Klein Jr., one of the rodeo's producers. "The bad ones are really bad." Audiences in the past have been rewarded with broken bones and, once, a fatal heart attack...