Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strike began in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, then spread throughout most of the country, shutting down public transportation for a week. The drivers were griping not about low wages but about a new law that imposed severe punishment for fatal accidents. Following an interpretation of Shariat, a code of Islamic laws, the guilty driver would be forced to pay a fine of $8,000 to the family of the deceased and serve up to 10 years in jail...
Like moths around candles, a number of gifted writers have been dazzled by that subspecies of Homo americanus, the murdering sociopath. Witness Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision. Or this well-crafted account of the fatal swath cut by an Indiana-born dentist named Kenneth Z. Taylor...
...decade, economies were growing, demand was strong, and, best of all, money was easy to come by. Financial institutions, especially American savings and loans, fell over themselves to lend to real estate developers. Says Pamela Rose, president of Chicago-based Rose & Associates, a real estate brokerage firm: "The fatal disease of this business is that developers love to develop. Real estate people simply lost control because there was so much money available." Concurs Richard Kateley, chief executive of Chicago's Real Estate Research Corp.: "The '80s were like a carnival, with foreign investors, banks and pension funds all competing...
Those looking for easy or pleasant answers to the problem of racial strife will not find them in My Son's Story. What emerges instead is another of Gordimer's gripping portraits of people caught up in -- and defined by -- fatal abstractions...
...well-developed case of heart disease. Eventually the narrowing arterial passage could be blocked by a blood clot or by a spasm that constricts and closes the artery. That could cut off the blood supply to his heart, causing possibly fatal damage to its muscle. In short, he is a prime candidate for heart attack, which annually strikes 1.5 million Americans, killing half a million of them. (Women as well as men are vulnerable to heart disease, though usually later in life...