Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Providence policemen said Miller was driving at 65 miles per hour in a 25-mile-per-hour area when he hit Pantalina, who died instantly. Miller and his two-companions received minor injuries in the crash, The Herald reported...
Ironically, the crash program for developing Retrovir may have contributed to its high price. To make the drug available as quickly as possible, "we have literally turned our company upside down," said Burroughs Wellcome Vice President Thomas Kennedy at a press conference last week. The company says it takes seven months to make the drug and that the high price is needed to offset development and manufacturing costs. Burroughs Wellcome officials also contend that by reducing the need for medical care, Retrovir could, despite its expense, slash the annual cost of treating an AIDS patient from an estimated...
...Failure," said Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, 42, last week, "is part of any mission of this magnitude." Gandhi was comforting India's space scientists after the country's newest rocket ended its maiden flight in a watery crash, a fate that also befell an American Atlas-Centaur rocket later in the week. But Gandhi could easily have been speaking of even more unhappy news that reached him the same day. In two of three state elections, his Congress (I) Party had suffered major setbacks at the hands of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the strongest of the country...
IDIDN'T see him for a while after that, and when I saw him again I realized I had created a monster. He had transformed my apartment--beautiful high ceilings with real hardwood floors--into a debauched crash pad for freaked-out artists and assorted hanger-on, calling it "The Factory". What's more, he had taken my concept and was churning it out on silkscreen by the thousands; the art scene was going wild. Unwittingly I had transformed the aesthetic perceptions of the West forever...
While the plane was making its final approach to Philadelphia International Airport, it had problems with its landing gear. After circling the city for 45 minutes, the plane finally made an emergency landing--with the Crimson players in crash position...