Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yards short of a runway at Sioux Gateway Airport, 110 passengers and crew members died, the tenth highest airplane toll in U.S. history. But, astonishingly, 186 lived through the crash and its fiery aftermath. Some even walked away. Never before had selecting a seat been such a fateful decision. Almost every passenger in the plane's 32-seat first-class compartment was killed. Virtually all the 117 travelers in an economy-class section behind them survived...
...reputation grew from a beginning that was so typically modest it could almost be mythic. The only child of an auto-parts salesman-farmer and an elementary school teacher in Linden, Texas ("Drive 20 miles to The Crossroads or, in the other direction, to Uncertain") -- Henley had a bedrock upbringing that permitted his musical excursions but gave him something to kick out against. When success with the Eagles hit fast and hard, he lived his share of the Los Angeles high life and paid a big price. In 1980 he found himself pickled in the press when he was given...
...Argentina the post of Economic Minister has become almost as star-crossed as the hyperinflated economy. The previous officeholder, Miguel Roig, 68, died July 14, just six days after he joined the Cabinet of incoming President Carlos Saul Menem. Roig's successor, businessman Nestor Rapanelli, 60, had been on the job only three days last week when newspaper reports disclosed that a judge in Venezuela had put out a warrant for his arrest in connection with a $6 billion trade-fraud scheme...
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. . . it was loathe at first sight. But he (Billy Crystal) learned to accept her (Meg Ryan) with almost no romantic strings attached. The "almost" makes for a witty sexual tension in Rob Reiner's comic valentine to love, friendship and Woody Allen...
Such effort is frequently the norm for our photographers, as major picture essays appear in the magazine almost every week. Some assignments are long planned, then take on special urgency after they get under way. When TIME's White House photographer Diana Walker began shooting for her May 22 essay on a day in the life of the President, she had no idea that George Bush would be facing a foreign policy crisis over Panama. Busy as he was, the President still went out of his way to ask, "How can I help make your job easier today?" Chimed...