Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What is the fatal flaw of Marxism...
...That lack of interest in other public policypeople can be a fatal drawback," he says...
...most patients, a bout of flu means a few missed days of work or school. But for people 65 and over and for those who have chronic heart or respiratory problems, diabetes, asthma or weakened immune systems, the disease can easily be fatal. Less able to fend off infections, these individuals are more susceptible to bronchitis, pneumonia and, occasionally, kidney failure and heart attacks. In an average year, flu is a factor in about 20,000 deaths in the U.S. The majority of A-Shanghai victims have been elderly, and all 50 states have discovered outbreaks in nursing homes...
...practice, hardly new, can be fatal if a container ruptures. The autopsy on a passenger from Venezuela who died en route to Kennedy Airport in 1970 revealed 120 packets of cocaine in his intestines. He apparently made the mistake of using a permeable natural-skin condom, rather than a latex one, to hold the drug, which seeped into his stomach. Since the intestines are 27 ft. long, they can contain large quantities of contraband...
Mandela is the sole black leader in South Africa who has a chance to bring both sides to compromise. Despite his advancing years and his near fatal bout with tuberculosis in 1988, he was described by a visitor to Victor Verster as "very nimble, alert, self-confident, charismatic, not a mere symbolic leader but someone who is in touch with events." Few others possess the pragmatism that Mandela has honed over the years, which may enable him to grow from a facilitator of negotiations to a reconciler...