Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard is fighting what may be a losing battle against a serious increase of often-fatal Dutch elm disease, in an attempt to preserve the Yard's leafy canopy...
...weeks earlier. Though the pain had disappeared-Press Secretary Ron Ziegler said that Nixon likened it to that of a deep bruise-the President nonetheless had to elevate the leg on his plane and in the privacy of his quarters on the ground. While phlebitis can be dangerous, even fatal if the clot moves to the lungs or brain, aides insisted that Nixon's case was well under control...
Many Americans-Richard Nixon used to be one of them-still believe that Franklin Roosevelt, weakened by a fatal illness, sold out the U.S. at Yalta I by granting the Soviet Union hegemony over Eastern Europe. They are afraid that Nixon, weakened by a perhaps fatal political illness, might do the same at a Yalta II. In fact, a recently released Louis Harris survey showed 52% thinking that Nixon should stay at home until the impeachment question is resolved. Buttressing this feeling of suspicion was the sudden resignation two weeks ago of Paul Nitze, a top member of the American...
...exposing a small sample of a patient's muscle tissue to halothane or other anesthetic drugs. If the defect is present, the muscle contracts abnormally. In families with a his tory of malignant hyperthermia, the complex test is well worth the trouble. Without prompt treatment, the condition is fatal in six out often cases...
...Hospital at Gainesville. They found that 177, or about 3%, of the admissions were due to drug-induced or exacerbated illnesses, many of them serious. Fifty of the illnesses were considered "moderate" by hospital authorities; 116, or nearly two-thirds, were severe or potentially life-threaten ing. Eleven proved fatal. Interaction between drugs (prescribed in some cases by different physicians) accounted for 56 of the admissions. But 121 were caused by a single drug. Aspirin alone accounted...