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In the Reagan White House, Don Regan, who succeeded James Baker as Chief of Staff, fancied himself the prime minister: he inserted himself into photos of Reagan with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, was rude to lesser beings (including reporters), and made the
fatal
mistake of hanging up on Nancy Reagan, who was dedicated to looking after her Ronny.
We must not ignore the grave dangers that it would pose for Pakistan, where a new round of jihadist rhetoric and mobilization could be
fatal
to hopes of building a stable and more secure country.
As Stephen Lewis, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa, has stated, “TB and HIV act on each other with
fatal
force – a combination made in hell.”
The Kuwaiti model may be risky, but the alternative – simply ignoring the need for change – could prove
fatal.
It remains to be seen if his approach to “making China great again” will strengthen his hand or turn out to be a
fatal
weakness.
For example, fumonisin and some other fungal toxins are highly toxic, causing esophageal cancer in humans and
fatal
diseases in livestock that eat infected corn.
Similarly, Dengue (or "breakbone") fever--a severe flu-like viral illness that can cause
fatal
internal bleeding--has broadened its range in the Americas over the past 10 years, reaching down to Buenos Aires by the end of the 1990's.
The second Intifada may very well have proven
fatal
to the Israeli left.
Meanwhile, the very aggressive cancers, which are most likely to prove fatal, tend to present as “interval” cancers that appear between screenings.
What might trigger a
fatal
run on the dollar in world markets?
Indeed, by integrating Turkey, Europe would show that it is not a Christian club, that the supposed “clash of civilizations” need not be fatal, and that the European project, born out of a desire for reconciliation and the need to promote development, can spread its benefits far beyond the Western half of Europe.
That chaos, Jordan’s government feared, could spread to the East Bank, potentially dealing a
fatal
blow to the Kingdom.
But history can never be so neatly potted, and Syriza's interpretation suffers from some
fatal
lacunae.
So the American system looks remarkably similar to the one that turned a collective blind eye to the rise of
fatal
tensions in the early 2000’s.
Among the single-regulator countries, Singapore and the Scandinavians were successful in dodging most of the
fatal
bullets, while the UK evidently was not.
Doing so would not only defy the will of an overwhelming majority of Spanish citizens; it could also strike a
fatal
blow to Spanish democracy itself.
The primary cause of May’s defeat was her
fatal
misstep in proposing that elderly people pay for a substantial portion of their social care out of their own resources, usually the value of the homes that they have lived in all of their lives.
This "European disease" cannot be cured until members of the European Union recognize it as potentially
fatal.
Unlicensed drivers, he found, are nearly five times more likely to be in a
fatal
crash.
While opposition to his rule among top clerics in Qom worries Khamenei, opposition within the Revolutionary Guard could be
fatal
for him.
Consider, for example, that before its US approval, a vaccine against rotavirus (a common, sometimes
fatal
gastrointestinal infection in children) was tested in more than 72,000 children – and another 40,000-plus in post-marketing studies.
How does one separate the terrorist parasite from its unwilling host, without doing
fatal
violence to the patient?
Children born to poor mothers are less likely to be immunized or taken to clinics for treatment of potentially
fatal
diseases, such as pneumonia and diarrhea.
Diffidence and arrogance is a
fatal
combination for a secretary of state, yet that is precisely what Tillerson displayed – and he rarely seemed to have a good day in the job.
Indeed, from this point began the
fatal
rivalry between Japan and the US that culminated in Pearl Harbor.
Since it began operating between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka in 1964, Japan’s Shinkansen has served as a vital transport artery in Japan, and has suffered no
fatal
accidents.
Too many people dismiss mental illnesses as problems of character or lack of will, rather than recognizing them as serious, often fatal, medical disorders.
Indeed, mental illnesses can be as
fatal
as physical ones.
They were joining hundreds of others in a protest led by the Black Justice League (BJL), one of many student groups that have emerged across the United States in response to the
fatal
shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, and subsequent police killings of unarmed African Americans.
Without further liberalization, EMU will remain subject to potentially
fatal
strains arising from shocks that affect some countries more than others.
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