Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Stirling Moss, 50, champion British racing driver; and Susie Paine, 27, an advertising executive; he for the third time, she for the first; in London. Moss, who won 194 races, including 14 world championship Grand Prix events, driving for Mercedes-Benz, Maserati and Lotus, retired after a near fatal crash in 1962 that left his vision blurred and slowed his reflexes. He returned to the track last month, this time in a British race for saloon (sedan) cars, but did not finish because his Audi 80 broke down...
...submitted that the target should just become a fatal victim of the notorious Washington street-crime rate. No one argued against that recommendation and, at Hunt's suggestion, I gave the doctor a $100 bill, from Committee to Re-Elect the President
...team of five did go through that garage-to-stairwell door and on up the stairs-failing to remove the now-functionless tape from the door. This was fatal since it was only after finding the same door taped a second time that the guards called the police...
...Britain-based Computer Fraud & Security Bulletin sponsored a "Think Like a Thief contest, encouraging readers to compete for a ?100 ($215) prize by inventing plans for a computer-related fraud. But now there are international repercussions. In his winning entry, published in the Bulletin, Leslie Goldberg pinpointed an apparently fatal flaw in a new security technique recently proposed by major British banks and being considered by their foreign counterparts...
Nader compares giant corporations to self-contained governments, with powers to tax (price fixing), coerce (forcing citizens to live with environmental hazards) and even take lives (concealing information about potentially fatal defects in manufactured goods). And unlike a democratic government, Nader observes, "the 'economic government' is largely unaccountable to its constituencies--shareholders, workers, consumers, local communities, taxpayers, small businesses and future generations...