Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HCHP ultimately performed a Spirometer test on Ramos to determine whether she had pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, which is common among AIDS victims, but test results were incomplete because the Spirometer machine "ran out of paper and the test was not completed," according to the complaint...
DIED. Charles Stark Draper, 85, aeronautical engineer whose inertial- navigation system aided Apollo astronauts on their historic 1969 journey to the moon; of pneumonia; in Cambridge, Mass. An aeronautics and astronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Missouri-born Draper was one of 15 scientists named TIME's Men of the Year...
...mother succumbed to tuberculosis; her father later put her and her older sister in a Catholic convent school, and she learned at the age of six that he had suddenly died of ptomaine poisoning. Convent life was benign but austere. Three winters in a row she suffered pneumonia so severe that a priest administered Extreme Unction...
...immediate causes of death ranged widely, from pneumonia to heart attacks. But many Japanese are convinced that the real killer was endaka, which means a strong yen. The 40% rise in the value of the Japanese currency since September 1985 has made the country's products more expensive abroad and stalled its vaunted export machine. As companies have increasingly suffered slipping sales and profits, corporate leadership has become more stressful -- and possibly deadlier -- than ever...
DIED. George William ("Fritz") Holt III, 46, co-producer of the Broadway smash La Cage aux Folles (now in its fourth year) and the 1974 revival of Gypsy; of complications from pneumonia; in Montclair, N.J. Holt also staged last month's 100th birthday salute to Showman George Abbott...