Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...younger ones acted after arguments. Girls shot themselves in front of their boyfriends, husbands killed themselves after their wives left them, desperate men shot their spouses in quarrels and then turned their weapons on themselves. The happenstance of an impulse and the ready availability of a gun were the fatal combination...
...page plea to his Congressman. He conceded that his mother might have found another way to end her life, but said her depression would probably have been cured had a gun not been so easily available. He protested the casual way in which she was able to acquire the fatal weapon: "No waiting period was enforced, no mental or criminal checks were made, and the salesperson even loaded the bullets into the gun. Mom died that day because of the totally irresponsible attitude that we Americans have developed about gun use and ownership." Every week, more American families are exposed...
During the 1960s, both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. lost two subs. Neither side is known to have lost a sub during the '70s, though the Soviets had several fatal accidents, some of the deaths caused by radiation poisoning from reactor malfunctions. Then the Soviet navy ran into a streak of bad luck. In 1983 a Charlie I class with a crew of 100 went down in the Pacific off the Kamchatka peninsula. In 1986 a Yankee I-class boat was lost east of Bermuda. With the sinking of the Mike-class vessel in April, a prototype that is believed...
...minute and then recovered." Heated by the incoming blast of radiation, the upper fringe of the atmosphere expanded farther into space. Low-orbiting satellites, encountering that fringe and running into increasing drag, slowed and dropped into still lower orbits. A secret Defense Department satellite began a premature and fatal tumble, and the tracking system that keeps exact tabs on some 19,000 objects in earth orbit briefly lost track of 11,000 of them. Solar Max descended by as much as half a mile in a single day, almost certainly hastening its demise...
...premature wrinkling and sagging. Of greater concern, it causes as many as half a million new cases of skin cancer every year. Most of these are basal or squamous cell carcinomas, which have high cure rates. But solar radiation may be a cause of melanoma, which can be fatal. Ultraviolet light apparently weakens the immune system; after a severe sunburn, some people suffer outbreaks of oral herpes or other disorders. Excessive exposure aggravates cases of chicken pox and can be especially dangerous, even fatal, to victims of lupus...