Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This time the bombers came well dressed, one in a dark suit, one in a light suit. A car dropped them off just outside Jerusalem's main food market, and they walked into the crowded center of the bazaar, carrying attache cases. At 1:10 p.m., positioned 100 ft. apart and apparently in eye contact, one of them, standing in a covered lane, detonated a lethal parcel containing about 20 lbs. of TNT packed with rusty screws and nails. Three seconds later, the second man exploded his suitcase bomb along an open street crammed with lunchtime shoppers. "This is madness...
About 11 p.m. on Wednesday, a frantic man flagged down a police car in Brooklyn, N.Y. Something terrible was about to happen, he tried to tell the cops, using broken English and sign language. At one point he flung his arms apart to indicate an explosion. When a translator arrived at the local precinct house, the man reported a plot by men he was living with to set off an explosion in New York City's subways that could have matched in carnage the blast that had just devastated Jerusalem's busiest market...
...rescue teams are on the scene, and the fires have been put out. Apart from the four-man crew of the Fine Air cargo plane, all of whom died, only four injuries have been reported on the ground. Considering that the crash took place on a busy Miami thoroughfare, it is extremely lucky there weren't more casualties...
...adjustments since the '87 crash, another meltdown is quite possible. And that hasn't been lost on a number of institutions quietly preparing for the worst. Some of the nation's largest mutual-fund companies, like Vanguard and Fidelity, have detailed battle plans should the market fall apart. Brokerage firms seem less frenetic but no less prepared, as is the government. Maybe these parties aren't as sanguine about the markets as they would have us believe...
...month-long run at the West End's Gielgud Theatre before heading to Edinburgh; it will be seen in New York City early next year. An earlier trilogy of McDonagh's opened this past weekend at the Duke of York's, which makes him the only writer this season, apart from Shakespeare, to have four plays running concurrently in London...