Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least, he didn't seem entirely comfortable in front of 10,000 newly made fans in Portland, Me., last Monday. He let them applaud for five minutes at a stretch before proceeding with the songs. He called one of them a "jerk" for throwing a potentially lethal t-shirt at him as he started "Money For Nothing." And, with the exception of a couple minutes of premeditated camp, he generally did his best to ignore the lot of them...
...office building, which also houses an Interior Department group that regulates fish hatcheries. Soon the Star Warriors will move to a new building complex in suburban Virginia near the Pentagon. So far, SDIO administers some 1,000 contracts worth $1.1 billion for studies aimed at developing such products as lethal laser beams and lightning-quick battle computers...
...effort to treat AIDS has been stymied by the difficulty of attacking viruses in general and the virus that causes this lethal disease in particular. The new drug works by short-circuiting the chemical process that the virus uses to make copies of itself inside human white blood cells...
...deadliest earthquakes in this century have occurred in the Far East, Latin America and the Mediterranean. By far the most lethal was a temblor that devastated the city of Tangshan, China, in July 1976. While Peking later put the official death toll at 242,000, other estimates ranged as high as 750,000. The great San Francisco quake of 1906 was the most powerful in modern U.S. history; the tremor and resulting fires resulted in 700 casualties--not enough to make the list. Nor will last week's disaster in Mexico City, despite the heavy damage, unless the death total...
Leverett House Master John P. Dowling was not amused. "This is a house that could very well be lost. We're worried that the slate from the roofs of Old Leverett will fly off--and they can be lethal projectiles...