Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nepotism, survived by cunning and thrived by doing their leader's most morally questionable will. However quickly Saddam might replace them, though, Iraq's slow strangulation under U.N. economic sanctions since 1990 continues to make life hard for the strongman's subjects. If his relatives' flight was not fatal, it at least displayed publicly some crucial flaws. Said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon: "It's clearly a vote of no confidence in Saddam Hussein...
Despite last week's fatal shooting of a Cambridge shopkeeper, the Harvard Police Department (HUPD) has no plans to beef up campus security for the upcoming academic year, a senior department official said yesterday...
Even the most experienced scuba divers rarely venture below 150 ft., however, owing to increasingly crushing pressure and the laborious decompression process required to purge the blood of nitrogen (which can form bubbles as a diver returns to the surface and cause the excruciating and sometimes fatal condition known as the bends). And pressurized diving suits make it possible for humans to descend only to 1,440 ft.--far short of the deepest reaches of the oceans...
...defense team cites several flaws in that attorney's performance. He assented to a jury made up of 10 whites and two blacks, hardly representative of the Philadelphia population, which was 40% black. And he failed to point out in court that the medical examiner's report identified the fatal bullet as .44 caliber, while the registered gun owned by Abu-Jamal and found at the scene was .38 caliber. Moreover, Abu-Jamal was allotted just $800 for investigators and expert witnesses. Says Weinglass: "You cannot put on a death case...
Nobody can accuse CHRISTIE BRINKLEY of being slow. This, after all, is the woman who thought to take photos of herself minutes after a near fatal helicopter crash to sell to PEOPLE magazine. Two months later, she agreed to marry a fellow crash survivor. Now "after much thought and consideration" --and seven months of togetherness--she is separating from that man, real estate developer RICK TAUBMAN, whose son she bore but eight weeks ago. Apart from Brinkley's tendency to overthink issues, it's unclear why her third marriage went sour, although there's ugly talk that money...