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Word: lethally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans routinely register their cars, bikes and dogs, generally without a yelp of protest. So why not their semiautomatic assault rifles and handguns, which may not always be as lethal as their autos but are certainly more so than their 10-speeds and terriers? Because, argued the National Rifle Association in a suit to throw out a 1989 California law that, in effect, banned possession of unregistered assault guns, the U.S. Constitution guarantees every citizen an unrestricted right to bear arms. California gun owners seem to agree. As a year-end deadline passed, only 18,000 of perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Concealed Weapons | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...idea of just how murderously interesting the affair will turn out to be. The author here approaches the sinister elegance of her The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). She introduces fundamental issues -- salvation and sin, inspiration and insanity, free will and destiny -- through the medium of light but lethal comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Books | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...Iceman Cometh No one may ever surpass Jason Robards' Hickey, the salesman who descends from periodic benders into coldly lethal nihilism, but in Chicago's Goodman Theater production of O'Neill's epic tragedy, Brian Dennehy was unforgettable too -- a big man crushed into pathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Theater | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Oxidized LDL could be lethal in another manneras well: by attracting "foam cells" ormacrophages, which cause plaque to grow on arterywalls, the molecule may lead directly to heartdisease...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Researchers Question Power of `Wonder Drug' | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

Researchers have long known that certain poisons can produce so-called dominant lethal effects in men. In these cases, the sperm is so damaged that it fails either to fertilize the egg or to produce a viable embryo. But little was known about whether toxins could trigger more insidious defects in the sperm -- problems subtle enough to allow the birth of the child but still harmful enough to produce serious malformations. Perhaps the most disturbing recent report concerns lead, which had been shown to impair fetal growth when mothers were exposed while pregnant. At a meeting last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Sins of the Fathers | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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