Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report released last year, Cambridge's Scientific Advisory Board told city officials that ADL's laboratories might contain up to 300,000 lethal doses at any given time. Experts on the panel predicted that if the worst-possible accident occurred, the gases could kill 30-40 persons within a one-mile radius of the facility...
...report concluded that the probability was very low, but that in the worst case, when the maximum amount of lethal chemical substance was present and employees exercised utter negligence in the treatment of the material, as many as 40 people in the vicinity of the plant could be killed...
Interferon's performance against other forms of cancer has been inconsistent, but when it does work, the results can be dramatic. It has produced complete remissions (though not necessarily permanent cures) in advanced cases of kidney cancer; in malignant melanoma, a lethal form of skin cancer; and in Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin cancer that often strikes AIDS victims. In one study reported in Houston, just five out of 52 patients with advanced melanoma were successfully treated with interferon. But this handful was extraordinary: all signs of cancer disappeared within four months, even though the disease had spread to such...
Either blow would be an act of war that could intensify the lethal Middle East cycle of terrorism, retaliation and counterretaliation. Non-Government analysts fear Iran would take American lives in revenge, and not just in the Middle East. "If we hit Iran, there is certain to be terrorism in the U.S.," says Robert Kupperman, co-author of the respected book Terrorism: Threat, Reality, Response. There are thousands of Iranians in the U.S., Kupperman notes, and the Ayatullah Khomeini has among them "a network in place which could respond almost immediately...
When their guards were up, the experts in Indianapolis tended to talk in the void jargon of management science: proactive modes, assessment of capabilities, lethal-type substances impacting on the environment, mass- casualty situations. Of course, those in the catastrophe business have a better excuse than most for their tendency toward euphemism. "I have found," said the Rev. Fred Page, a Presbyterian minister from Ruston, La., "that using the word morgue with someone who has just lost a loved one may not be best...