Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arithmetic of the impeachment vote. He was a man awake during his own nightmare. His vaunted self-discipline had not prevented the debacle and may even have caused it. He had suppressed the instincts that would normally have alerted him to his peril; he had been sustained on the fatal course by associates who subordinated policy to procedure and who were at a loss as to how to react when the procedures miscarried...
...match, using the one-pound leeway to get within the lower weight class, under 143 lbs: immediately afterwards, he boarded the already late bus and the team departed for Columbia. But no official witnessed his second informal weight-in-this one at under 143-lbs.--and that proved fatal for Harvard...
...novelty here is getting the inside German view. Das Boot has thrills aplenty; it moves full speed ahead through its 2½-hr. running time. Of the 40,000 U-boat men in World War II, 28,000 were killed, and the film is careful to emphasize the fatal futility of all this derring-do. Still, Das Boot should be instructive for American audiences. It shows that some of the bad guys were good guys...
...Catch-22 is that in order to vault to greater heights you must take a chance--move your hand a bit lower on the pole, or speed up your approach--but too much doring can be fatal. It's that dynamic tension of risk and cautiousness that every vaulter strives...
...determined to be "objective and systematic. Patients were asked standardized questions and did not at first know the purpose of his study. Rather than limiting it to people claiming to have had an NDE, as Moody did, Sabom questioned a random sample of patients who had suffered near fatal medical crises, defined as any unconscious bodily state that "would be expected to result in irreversible biological death in the majority of instances." Three-quarters had been in cardiac arrest. A few had already been given up for dead. One soldier, for instance, was discovered to be alive only when...