Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George Skakel Jr., 44, brother of Ethel Kennedy and head, since their parents' death in a plane crash, of the family-controlled Great Lakes Carbon Corp. (1965 sales: an estimated $125 million); with four other men (including onetime Kennedy Aide Dean Markham) in a plane crash during an elk-hunting trip; near Riggins, Idaho...
...rate, short selling is no game for novices or the fainthearted. The most that a buyer of stock stands to lose, even if his shares crash to zero, is his original investment. But the short seller's risk is unlimited, since technically there is no ceiling on how high a stock can rise...
Uncontrollable and lifeless, it plowed into the moon's Seething Bay at 6,000 m.p.h. and was completely demolished in the crash...
...dorm crew's normal work capacity requires 140 students--125 absolutely necessary for service plus a 15-man supplementary "crash crew." According to Smith, this force is always reduced at several times during the school year, particularly after November hour exams when poor grades prompt many freshmen--who make up the majority of the dorm crew--to give up their jobs...
With the reduction, the crew's manpower requirements are cut to 120, including a reduced "crash crew." By yesterday, the Student Employment Office had found only 117 students for the crew...