Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most frightening accident of the week was reminiscent of the July 19 crash of a United Airlines DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa, caused when the rear engine exploded, cutting the plane's hydraulic flight controls. On Wednesday the rear engine shattered on a Northwest DC-10 headed for Minneapolis, blasting holes in the engine housing. The plane landed safely in Denver. In the first mishap, the engine was a General Electric model, in the second, a Pratt & Whitney; no cause has been determined for either explosion...
...economy has not stagnated. Before closing at 2683.99 for the week, the closely watched index briefly topped the all-time record of 2722.42 it set on Aug. 25, 1987. That was the heady peak from which the Dow began its steepest slide in history, culminating in the 508-point crash...
...without a recession," says Byron Wien, chief domestic strategist for the investment firm Morgan Stanley, who since May has been predicting a new all-time high on the Dow. Elaine Garzarelli, a portfolio manager at Shearson Lehman Hutton, who was one of the few forecasters to warn of the crash in 1987, believes the Dow will top 3000 before the end of the year...
...JACKSONS: 2300 JACKSON STREET (Epic). Remember the address if you want to crash a party without leaving home. The Jacksons make hot soul but deliver it nice and cool...
...polls can be surprising as well as illuminating. Before the presidential election, for instance, TIME surveys about G.O.P. contenders revealed an undetected support for George Bush that presaged his march to the White House. And a TIME poll taken after the stock-market crash of 1987 showed that contrary to cries of financial doom, most Americans did not think Wall Street's woes really affected them much. Last week, when we profiled the rise of television-news stars, the editors found it useful to survey their relative importance to the public...