Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the supertanker Amoco Cadiz lost control of its rudder and ran aground off the Brittany coast of France on the night of March 16, 1978, the result was history's biggest oil-tanker spill as well as the most costly maritime accident ever. The $15 million ship and...
By now, most evidence of the accident has disappeared. The coastline is clean and the shore birds have returned. Production of marketable oysters resumed in 1981. Scientists say that natural processes such as waves and tides dispersed much of the pollutant and that bacteria broke down some of the crude...
Jessie, a New York Jew who fought through the civil rights wars with her husband, wants to sell. Not sell out, just abandon a pose of high-minded poverty that is not accomplishing anything, and move to a decent house in an integrated neighborhood. Carll won't budge. Then...
...tragic accident" while removing abandoned rebel vehicles. Government spokesmen later said that the soldiers were reconnoitering along a road that "might have been mined." Finally, a day after the funeral, Hernu told the French Parliament that the deaths had occurred when one of the soldiers "imprudently or perhaps accidentally" mishandled a 90-mm shell...
Stanford was hospitalized following her accident. Morse added. He said he does not expect her to return to duty for at least another month.