Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many a company such sweeping write-offs would be fatal, would send the stock skittering down. But Bob Gross guessed that he could get away with it, timed the announcement to follow the successful launching from a submarine of the Lockheed-manufactured Polaris missile...
...researchers note in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 1958 (most recent year for which full figures are available), 552 U.S. deaths were officially listed as caused by measles, as against 255 by poliomyelitis. Measles kills in many ways. The virus is sometimes the direct cause of fatal pneumonia, but more often it is the precursor of a bacterial infection. Measles also has a tendency to attack the middle ear, which may lead to permanent deafness (occasionally total) on both sides...
...despite all reasonable precautions, the baby is defective, today's surgery and medicine offer far more hope of alleviating the condition than before World War II. Many severe abnormalities in and around the heart, once crippling and eventually fatal, are now corrected by daring surgery. "Water on the brain" (hydrocephalus) can be drained away by ingenious valves and tubes...
...business and 15 times earnings for electronic and silicon, or a total of 21 times earnings. Multiply this by two for furth-burners, and we now have a score of 42 times earnings for the new company." Concluded Dreyfus dryly: "In today's market, studying securities can be fatal. While you're studying them, they're apt to double, and by the time you find you wouldn't have bought them in the first place they will probably have tripled...
...there is nothing fatal or final to point to. In Britain, the Tories still hold the husk of the Establishment and hope in the upcoming elections to make it "Four in a Row." The new element is the familiar Anti-Nuclear Bomb movement of today, but in FitzGibbon's time its pony-tailed and sandaled youth has swollen into the biggest political fact in Britain, led by zealots and exploited by those who know that pacifism cannot help but help the Russians. And when, in a landslide-election win, the anti-Bomb boys and girls take power...