Word: fatalities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Police and firemen cordoned off the area of the crash, but a crowd of 4000 to 5000 jammed the site of the disaster. The crash was the first fatal accident in the history of Pacific Southwest Airlines, an intrastate carrier that makes 200 flights a day within California...
...more than 100 Grand Prix events, and this year ranked second behind Mario Andretti in the world championship driver standings. Asked if he ever became scared, Peterson, the veteran of some 30 accidents, replied, "No, not really. If I did I think I would give it up." The fatal wreck stirred fellow drivers to demand either the closing or complete remodeling of the 56-year-old Monza course, considered by many to be too narrow and fast a track...
Next day the demonstrations began again and this time ended in fatal, fiery riots. Many marchers apparently had not yet heard the martial-law proclamation over Radio Iran or else they chose to defy it. Jaleh Square in downtown Tehran was packed with thousands of protesters. A local religious leader appealed to them to disperse. They refused. A cavalcade of motorcycles, followed by groups of women and young children, began to proceed toward squads of armed soldiers. After repeated warnings, the soldiers lobbed canisters of tear gas into the crowd, then shot into the air. As the throngs advanced...
...away. Most of the difference was in stress-related disease. Meecham's target group of about 80,000 people in the Inglewood and Lennox sections near the airport was compared with a control group similar in number, age, income and racial balance. The target group had 40% more fatal strokes and 140% more deaths from cirrhosis of the liver. "These diseases may not be caused by the noise," says Meecham, "but it appears they are hurried along by the tension...
...this unfavorable relation of forces come about? How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present sickness? Have there been fatal turns and losses of direction in its development? It does not seem so. The West kept advancing socially in accordance with its proclaimed intentions, with the help of brilliant technological progress. And all of a sudden it found itself in its present state of weakness...