Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also the worst of times. For most of the companies that make those computers, that market has suddenly become a lethal place. Once successful companies such as IBM, Compaq, Dell and Apple are floundering; profits are plunging, margins squeezed. Last month one of the personal-computer industry's leading lights -- the pioneering Tandy Corp. -- became a prominent casualty. Faced with $52 million in losses in the past year and an even bloodier future, Tandy decided to abandon the PC business, which accounted for 10% of its sales last year. The company simply could not survive the intense price competition...
...druthers, these places wouldn't even exist," says Free Willy's executive producer, Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon, Radio Flyer). "There are those who'll argue the aquatic parks are like zoos, that they teach children and others about animals. But I'm against zoos too." Donner's wife, Lauren Shuler-Donner, who co-produced the movie, says, "We didn't set out to make a movie condemning aquatic parks. We set out to make a movie about a boy and a whale and family and friendship and freedom. But personally, I've never liked zoos, seaquariums or even birds...
...combination of the antibody, acting as a guidance system that homes in on tumor cells, and doxorubicin, as the lethal payload, knocked out many kinds of advanced cancer in mice, including colon, lung and breast tumors that had spread to other organs. In earlier animal experiments, researchers were able to cure only those cancers that had not been growing very long or that had not metastasized. "One of the problems that have held back the field for a long time is that we were never sure that well-established solid tumors could be eliminated," says Dr. David Scheinberg, chief...
Cyanide gas, he said, is highly toxic and is eventually lethal to humans if breathed for a protracted period of time. The experiment in question, though, involved only solid cyanide, which is poisonous is ingested but gives off no dangerous fumes...
...Kuwait many times. The basic plot was known in detail: "The bomb was to be placed in an area where it could be detonated as President Bush's motorcade was to go by," a top intelligence official said. "The bomb, which weighed 175 lbs., had a fairly large lethal radius. Al-Ghazali was to move within a distance of 300 or 500 feet and detonate the bomb manually, using the radio remote-control device." If that plan failed, al-Ghazali was supposed to move the car to Bush Street in Kuwait City and activate the manual timer, which...