Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Supporters of the bill point out that teen-agers and young adults aged 16 to 24 are involved in a shocking 42% of all fatal alcohol-related accidents, though they constitute only 20% of licensed drivers and account for less than 20% of total vehicle miles driven. Teen-agers from 16 to 19 make up just 7% of licensed drivers but are involved in nearly 15% of the fatal crashes in which alcohol is a factor. Says Candy Lightner, president of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD),* of the pro-21 proposals: "There is nothing more important today than reducing...
...each year in auto accidents caused by intoxication, and would also cut into the toll of some 20,000 older drunken-driving victims. A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety of accident patterns in nine states that raised the drinking age shows an average 28% drop in fatal nighttime crashes involving under-21 age groups. Polls show 77% of Americans favor a drinking age of 21. Sums up New Jersey Congressman James Florio: "The 21-year-old drinking age is a straightforward and proven way to save lives. The public understands this...
Primary liver cell cancer is nearly 100 percent fatal because tumors in the liver are almost never discovered early enough for removal, and this particular type of cancer has proven "very resistant to chemotherapy," said Dr. Jack R. Wands, an associate professor of medicine at the Medical School and co-author of the discovery...
...rescued by another ship. It seems doubtful that any trace of the others will turn up; a Canadian-American air and sea search that ranged over 3,600 square miles of the Atlantic found nothing and was called off four days after the sinking. The rescued sailors called the fatal force that capsized their ship "a rogue wind." "It meant to kill us," asserted John Ash, 24, of Newtown, Pa. "There was nothing we could do." The proud vessel brought to the bottom the silver cup it had captured by winning a previous leg of the tall ships race...
Though the poisoning of a Pope may seem farfetched today, legend has it that at least one Pope-Alexander VI-died of poisoning, from a fatal potion that was intended for some Cardinals. That was in 1503, and the rumors have not let up yet. Veteran Vatican observers recall the stories of how Pope Pius X died of poisoning in 1914. Then there were the whispers about how poison killed Leo XIII in 1903, Pius VIII...