Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What may deal the Hunt fortune a fatal blow is the fallout from the brothers' role in the great silver-price boom and bust of 1980. Thousands of investors who lost money in the debacle are suing the Hunts. On Saturday the brothers lost a civil case that could set an ominous precedent. A six-member federal jury in New York City found that the Hunts conspired to corner the silver market, and held them liable to pay $63 million in damages to Minpeco, a Peruvian mineral-marketing company that suffered heavy losses in the silver crash. Under federal antitrust...
...effectiveness of gas. Advocates of chemical warfare produced statistics showing that gas caused far more casualties per round than explosives; opponents produced conflicting evidence that it took a higher tonnage of chemicals to control a given area. Some claimed that gas was a "humane weapon" because the incidence of fatal casualties was only 1 in 30, and even the wounded were not mutilated. Others argued that these figures were misleading and that gas should be outlawed forever...
...issues at stake. He was not going to "dick" much about ideas. There were games to be won (he tried to set up a soccer league in Texas) and clubs to be organized. Few suspect George Bush of meanness. The fault must have been intellectual. At any rate, something fatal was lost and would never be retrieved when Prescott Bush's son ran a Barry Goldwater race in 1964. He admitted to an Episcopal priest that he had gone too far to the right in his urge...
Biden was the next of the Baby Boomers to go. An "attack video" was released which indicated that Biden was not altogether clear what were the words and ideas of his predecessors and what were his own. The problem became fatal when it was revealed that the Delaware senator had cheated as a student at Syracuse Law School...
...this and more about the Ottomans. And although it may serve as a history lesson to some, it will also reawaken old stereotypes about Turks, about their greed, their savagery and their pettiness. Written and directed by James Dearden (who also wrote the screenplay for last year's sleeper, Fatal Attraction), Pascali's Island is a different kind of empire film. Instead of glorifying empire, it is decidedly unsympathetic. Stripped of the pageantry of the Raj, the decadence of a forbidden city and intriguing tribesman, this film ineffectively belittles both the Turks and the Greeks who fought them...