Not long after a final, frail appearance in the 1997 PBS television documentary Truman, Clifford died from natural causes in 1998 at age 91.

Gaddis is best known for his critical analysis of the strategies of containment employed by United States presidents from Harry S. Truman to Ronald Reagan, and for arguing that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's personality and role in history was one of the most important causes of the Cold War.

After the fall of China to Communist forces, General Wedemeyer would testify before Congress that while the loss of morale was indeed a cause of the defeat of the Nationalist Chinese forces, the Truman administration's 1947 decision to discontinue further training and modernizing of Nationalist forces, the U. S .- imposed arms embargo, and constant anti-Nationalist sentiment expressed by Western journalists and policymakers were primary causes of that loss of morale.

The reference to White House interest is consistent with a telephone call Captain ( later Major ) Edward Ruppelt, Blue Book Project Director at the time, received from Brigadier General Landry, Truman ’ s military aide, on the 28th July, inquiring as to the causes of the Washington reports of the previous days.

In the last hundred years, the face value of circulation coins has usually been higher than the gross value of the metal used in making them ; exceptions occurring when inflation causes the metal value to surpass the face value, causing the minting authority to change the composition and the old coins to begin to disappear from circulation ( see Gresham's Law.

Although its causes are still being investigated, El Niño events begin when trade winds, part of the Walker circulation, falter for many months.

* 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

Here, symptoms usually begin between the ages of 25 and 40 and may worsen with straining or any activity that causes cerebrospinal fluid pressure to fluctuate suddenly.

“ It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.

The causes of dementia depend on the age at which symptoms begin.

This causes the electrons to begin to travel in a generally downward direction at about 94 percent of the speed of light.

This causes the attached armature and cam to engage a gear and rotate upwards to lift a latch allowing the correction cycle to begin.

This takes 6 seconds and causes the secondary clocks to begin their correction cycle at precisely 58 minutes 0 seconds.

Because of Amy's earlier complaints about the heat, Anthony causes snow to begin falling outside.

Circlework is based on the assumption that the root causes of violence and war lie within us, and that our own consciousness is where change must begin.

The Gods being trapped causes the release of the Ice Giants from their prison and they begin strolling across the Discworld, freezing everything in their path.

Having tried unsuccessfully the White Rabbit and Pat begin throwing berries at her which turn into cakes that causes her to shrink back to size.

A single drop of the man's blood falls from Loki's dagger, triggering an earthquake that causes the island to begin sinking.

The JOBQ OCL statement causes the job queue job to be initialized, but it won't begin immediately if there's a lineup.

OROV causes the disruption of cells in cultured cells where cells begin to degenerate shortly after they are infected causing viral induction of apoptosis.

Day of the Dead celebrations begin on 31 October for those who had died of natural causes.

This causes the aircraft to roll to the left and begin to turn to the left.

The female releases a pheromone which causes the males to become less aggressive and to begin courtship, which involves a courtship dance with claws closed.

Back in the town, the USGS crew, the last ones left in the town, are evacuated by the military, but a lahar ( volcanic-caused mudslide ) causes the small bridge to begin to break apart as they reach it.

This causes the compander to ' back off ' the gain in certain circumstances and reduce the audibility of noise modulation – even with this pre-emphasis, noise modulation can become audible when using very noisy media to begin with, such as the Compact Cassette format.

Generally as the rubber skin flexes, the stress causes it to dry and begin to crack.

The announcement of his promotion to assistant manager of Wonder Falls is the trigger that causes Jaye's "' sode ," short for episode, on the day that the muses begin talking to her.

During the contraction the core becomes hotter and hotter until it causes the outer layers to begin fusing hydrogen and expand outwards initiating the red giant stage.

The soul cannot get beyond questioning herself about the traits and causes of a fountain and a flower, intimating perhaps that his method constitutes a useless effort, since it must take into account all the details, accidents, and mysteries of each being.

The 1960s built strong cultural momentum for environmental causes, giving birth to the modern environmental movement and large questioning in sociologists interested in analyzing the movement.

After working in the rabies division of Rue Vaquelin and studying the microbe that causes dysentery, he seeks the collaboration of a younger bacteriologist, Fernald Widal: together they are able to immunize some guinea pigs by inoculating them with Eberth bacilluses previously killed by the heat, hence questioning the basis of the conventional vaccination method, built on the notion that only weakened-but not dead-bacteria can be used to immunize.

Lang's most controversial political stance was as an AIDS denialist ; he maintained that the prevailing scientific consensus that HIV causes AIDS has not been backed up by reliable scientific research, yet for political / commercial reasons further research questioning the current point of view is suppressed.

It is spirit which gives life to a community and causes it to cohere.

A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).

The greed of a draugr causes it to viciously attack any would-be grave robbers, but the draugr also expresses an innate jealousy of the living, stemming from a longing for the things of the life it once had.

In addition to serving in political office, Elias supported many civic, religious, and educational causes during his life.

Normally, the nature of Planet's life causes it never to attain full sentience ; however, human presence adds an unknown variable into the equation.

In 1996, actress-screenwriter Zoë Tamerlis, herself a heroin addict who died of drug-related causes in 1999, was commissioned to write a screenplay based upon Carangi's life.

Historical materialism looks for the causes of developments and changes in human society in the means by which humans collectively produce the necessities of life.

In his professional life he observed closely the dissolution of numerous families and analysed the causes and consequences of these.

There is something about a storyteller becoming rich and having a reasonably full private life that has a powerful potential to irritate so that, when things go wrong, it causes a very special kind of joy.

She has since retired from public life but frequently makes guest appearances for Democratic and other political causes.

Though his name was then a household word ( as was " existentialism " during the tumultuous 1960s ), Sartre remained a simple man with few possessions, actively committed to causes until the end of his life, such as the May 1968 strikes in Paris during the summer of 1968 during which he was arrested for civil disobedience.

A common assumption is that disorders may have resulted from genetic and developmental vulnerabilities, exposed by stress in life ( for example in a diathesis – stress model ), although there are various views on what causes differences between individuals.

Usually, seeking to improve a complex life-form beyond natural limits causes the condition of pattern bleeding: the affected life form begins to wither and die over time.

Avicenna suggests, in remarkable similarity with Robert Burton, many causes for melancholy, including the fear of death, intrigues surrounding one's life, and lost love.

During the 1980s, health statistics, including life expectancy and causes of mortality, were gradually made available to the outside world.

Efundja, the annual flooding of the northern parts of the country, often causes not only damage to infrastructure but loss of life.

It was supported by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and became a prominent part of his ideas which suggested that past transformations of life could have had environmental causes working on the embryo, rather than on the adult as in Lamarckism.

In the formal instrument of renunciation he recited as the causes moving him to the step, " the desire for humility, for a purer life, for a stainless conscience, the deficiencies of his own physical strength, his ignorance, the perverseness of the people, his longing for the tranquility of his former life ".

On 1 March 1474 he granted Alice Burgh £ 20 a year for life " for certain special causes and considerations ".

Indeed, the opera bears some striking resemblances with the novel, and, in short, tells the story of a medieval ( and historically real ) singer, whose art is so beautiful that he causes Venus, the goddess of love herself, to fall in love with him, and to offer him eternal life with her in the Venusberg.

Attributing failures to dispositional causes rather than situational causes, which are unchangeable and uncontrollable, satisfies our need to believe that the world is fair and we have control over our life.

** An American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after a rudder malfunction causes an uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the loss of all life on board.

* September 15 – The Neulengbach earthquake causes significant damage and some loss of life in Lower Austria and Vienna ; the effects are felt as far as Bohemia and Silesia.