Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday night's bombing of the Libyan capital, President Reagan told the nation that as long as he is in office he will not tolerate terrorism anywhere. Attacking Libya in response to what was a Libyan war waged through terrorism was justified, though the resulting civilian casualities are tragic. But it would be wrong to see Monday night's raid as the successful initiation of a new American policy for responding to terrorism in general...
Although Michael Dean, 43, never saw combat, he served two tours of duty in Indochina and "was always talking Viet Nam," said a neighbor in Lebanon, N.H. Last week Dean's obsession took a tragic turn. In an apparent murder- suicide pact with Caroline Hull, his lover and the widow of another vet, Dean killed himself, Hull and her three children. "We the veterans, widows and children of veterans are a forgotten group," said a suicide note. Coincidentally, a study just published by the New England Journal of Medicine reports that Viet Nam-era veterans are 86% more likely...
...smoking, snorting and dealing on the job eventually became so blatant and the results so tragic that companies could no longer afford to ignore what was going on. New York-based Capital Cities/ ABC woke up to its drug troubles in 1984 after an employee collapsed at work, and subsequently died, from a cocaine overdose. Shortly thereafter, Capital Cities, which later acquired ABC, discovered organized drug dealing in one of its divisions. Last year, according to Dr. Robert Wick, corporate medical director for American Airlines, a computer operator who was high on marijuana failed to load a crucial tape into...
...Tragic Flaw...
Martinez criticized the Reagan plan to aid the contras as "tragic." The plan has no chance of success because "the group has no support in Nicaragua," he said...