Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NASA still refused to jump to any conclusions. The agency named an interim investigative panel to take charge of the search and called upon two aircraft "crash detectives" from the National Transportation Safety Board - for help. The NTSB experts, more experienced than the space agency in reconstructing accidents, will assist in building a "fault tree": a split- second, item-by-item analysis of the flight's progress, as portrayed by telemetry, voice recordings, eyewitnesses, photographs and videotape. With NASA and industry engineers, the NTSB investigators, like paleontologists trying to reconstruct a dinosaur, will piece together every available scrap of Challenger...
...sell everything from weapons to steel mills. In the Middle East, the cascade of petrodollars brought about novel configurations of regional power, with Saudi Arabia taking a leading role. Bankers rushed to lend billions of dollars to such oil producers as Mexico and Nigeria, which were embarked on crash development programs. Always there was the worry that the industrialized world would be brought to its knees by a cutoff of the precious and ever more expensive petroleum supply...
Once again, a stunning shift in the price of oil sent tremors around the globe. Yet unlike the jolts that staggered the world economy in the 1970s, last week's quake caused prices to crash rather than climb. On Tuesday oil dropped below $20 per bbl. for the first time in seven years. Said Charles Maxwell, an analyst with the Cyrus J. Lawrence brokerage house near Wall Street: "This is one of the most important days in the oil markets in a decade." Since November, the price of petroleum contracts has plunged about 40%, including an 18% drop last week...
...author extraordinaire, would want to help our hapless holy man escape from Omar's clutches, and walk all the way across the desert and up several steep cliffs just so she, Al, Jack and Ralph (Danny DeVito), whom they've managed to pick up somewhere along the way, can crash Omar's laser show and present the real jewel to his adoring public...
...council, however, is not just another student activity; it uses our money to operate and purports to be the students' government. Its members have apparently forgotten that, choosing instead to approach the body as a crash course in bureaucracy...