The effect may be induced by fallout from atomic explosions.
The culprit was milk produced by cows that had grazed on grass heavily carpeted by fallout.
Cows ate grass contaminated by fallout from the reactors and secreted radioactive iodine in their milk.
But in August Canadian banks and a score of unregulated money managers were hit by fallout from America's mortgage crisis.
The company has said its earnings for the current quarter will be negatively affected by fallout from the investigations.
Preparations for the maiden flight of Europe's newest passenger jet, the Airbus A350, were also affected by fallout from the strike, French transport sources said on Monday.
But the Red Sox drove right by fallout and straight into comical territory, doing everything but erecting a tent and ordering in some elephants.
Crops can be contaminated by fallout, which can cling to surface of plants at first and later be taken up by their roots.
In almost any scenario, the estimate of how many dead and how many affected by fallout run into the hundreds of millions.
These include "Lucky Dragon No. 5" (1959), which dramatized the true story of Japanese fishermen contaminated in 1954 by fallout from United States nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll.
Qwest, battered by fallout from accounting errors and plunging stock prices, hopes the sale of the directories will relieve some of its $26.6 billion of debt.
