Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bankrupt the system is, but his dithering frittered away much of the political capital needed to impose the painful, unavoidable solutions. How did he get into this predicament, and what can he do to climb out of it? While the delay in reform is disappointing, it need not be fatal, provided Gorbachev moves swiftly...
...slips into near hysteria, making jokes (she says they are funny) about the waiter, the croissants, the plates, the Ayatullah. They part, but she calls him later in the day to have dinner at a "hilariously hip restaurant." Of course, he says no. Any greater rebuke to her fatal attraction and she might be tempted to boil the rabbit...
...long-awaited five-year study found "no evidence" that Agent Orange injured soldiers in the field. The report did conclude that Viet Nam veterans are more likely than the general population to get a rare, fatal cancer called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. But for some mysterious reason, the veterans who suffer from this cancer were predominantly sailors who were stationed off the Viet Nam shore and who had relatively little exposure to the defoliant. Even though the CDC could find no link between Agent Orange and increased cancer, Veterans Affairs Secretary Edward Derwinski immediately authorized compensation for about...
Human Services Secretary Philip Johnston and Public Health Commissioner David Mulligan urged the Legislature to raise taxes to provide more money to combat the fatal disease...
...more point about Gorbachev. I compare him to Khrushchev. Khrushchev was not well educated, but he was smarter than Gorbachev and quicker than Gorbachev. But Khrushchev had a fatal weakness. He was rash. Gorbachev is not rash, but he does have a temper...