Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have learned that it is often better to combine the firepower of several different chemotherapeutic drugs than to rely on any single medication to destroy cancer cells. Too often, they have found, the one-drug approach allows a few malignant cells to survive and blossom into an even more lethal tumor. The AIDS researchers faced a similar problem with HIV. Whenever they prescribed a single drug, such as AZT, for their patients, a few viral particles would survive and give rise to drug-resistant...
...criticism for allowing Jewell's life to be turned upside down on the basis of scant evidence, and some observers contend that the focus on Jewell may have dried up avenues leading to other suspects. The stalled investigation is especially frustrating to an FBI that recently determined just how lethal the bomb could have been: last week Kennedy revealed that the bomb's force was diminished because a group of teenagers kicked it over, causing the nails inside to shoot upward, instead of out into the crowd. Had it not changed position, he said, there would have been "many, many...
Since Kay killed Jackie, the general public has reached a greater understanding of the potentially lethal relationship between an abuser and a victim--thanks in part to the endless examination of O.J. Simpson's volatile marriage to Nicole Brown Simpson. Police officers, judges, doctors and lawyers have begun to get educated about the "battered woman's syndrome"--the psychological dependency that keeps a spouse trapped in a violent relationship, repeatedly forgiving her abuser and even sometimes blaming herself for the attacks. In recent years, legal protections for victims of domestic abuse have also been dramatically strengthened in ways that might...
...demons have been running rampant in recent weeks. While air bags have saved more than 1,600 lives and averted thousands of crippling injuries since 1986, public attention has lately fastened on the fact that the devices, which bang open at speeds of up to 200 m.p.h., can be lethal as well. Since 1991, 51 victims--including 31 children--have been killed by air bags that slammed into them in low-speed crashes that might have been otherwise survivable. Many of the victims were not wearing seat belts. Among those particularly vulnerable: infants and small children placed in the front...
Many attendees were like Pinar Z. Yegin '98, who arrived at 1:15 p.m. for the 5 p.m. speech by the actor known for movies such as "Braveheart" and the "Lethal Weapon" trilogy...