Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meant that voters could choose among candidates from a single FARC-supported party. Afterward, a FARC leader assured TIME that the party's success will spread. "We have every intention," he said, "of governing as much of this country as we can." That mild-sounding proposition could be a lethal battle...
...agents working for Washington. Saddam is a poor candidate for victimhood, but last week his protests got a boost as a leak-and-leak-again battle between the U.N. and the U.S. spun out. The suggestion: U.S. spies had used UNSCOM, a purportedly neutral U.N. commission, to collect lethal targeting intelligence about Saddam while masquerading as independent inspectors. It was a shocking charge--as if Girl Scouts peddling cookies were also casing your house for a burglary--and American officials were quick to shoot back. We may have spied, they said, but we spied only to help the U.N. inspectors...
...problem. Hog farming, until recently the most profitable sector in agriculture, is stuck in the mud. A glut of live pigs on the market, exacerbated by a sudden drop in slaughterhouse capacity, has pushed the price of pigs down to levels not seen since the Depression. "It's a lethal mixture," says Al Tank, CEO of the National Pork Producers Council. Across the South and Midwest, farmers are losing thousands of dollars a day, drifting deeper into debt and near bankruptcy; fully 20% could be belly-up by spring. A government forecast on the hog supply last week promised little...
...case scenario, the bombings will lead either to Saddam's downfall or to fuller inspections by UNSCOM, assuming a chastened Iraq allows the teams to return. At worst the air war will end UNSCOM inspections for good without having done much to debilitate Saddam's capacity to manufacture his lethal weapons. UNSCOM has been stymied by Saddam to the point of impotence, but it did provide a mechanism for measuring how and when sanctions could be lifted. Its demise could boost sentiment among Arab nations to drop the embargo, with Russia and China possibly pulling out as well...
...administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill patient [NATION, Dec. 7], Dr. Jack Kevorkian should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. In his stubborn, egocentric wisdom, Kevorkian has become judge, jury and executioner. After I had open-heart surgery 10 years ago, I could hardly breathe and struggled desperately. A medical technician repeatedly came by to see me, and at one point, in fierce pain, I scribbled in pencil, "Kill me!" At long last I recovered my health. Before that incident my instinct for self-preservation had never wavered, nor has it since. All aspects...