Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...percentage terms, the 246% jump has been exceeded three times: by a 496% run-up in the eight years before the 1929 crash, a 371% recovery from 1933 to 1937 and a 355% climb between 1949 and 1961. But all those bull markets rose from far lower price levels; in dollar terms there has never been anything remotely resembling the current market binge. The Wilshire Index of the combined value of 5,000 stocks has climbed $2.2 trillion in the past five years, equal to half the U.S. gross national product of $4.4 trillion...
...death toll from the crash made it the nation's second worst. The crash of an American Airlines DC-10 on May 25, 1979, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport is the nation's worst air disaster. It killed 275 people...
Flight 255, which had originated in Saginaw, was en route to Phoenix, Ariz., and suburban Los Angeles when it crashed in clear weather at 8:46 p.m. Investigators were checking reports it was on fire before it plunged, and the FBI was sent to scene because of reports there might have been an explosion before the crash...
...crash killed two people on the ground and at least 152 of the 153 people on board. The four-year-old girl was found alive in the wreckage under the body of a woman...
...least six people, all of whom had been on the ground, were treated at hospitals for injuries caused by the crash. One man, Lawrence Favio, 30, of Lincoln Park, was airlifted to the University of Michigan Medical Center and was in critical condition with burns over 39 percent of his body, said a hospital spokeswoman...