Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Without help from Vega 1 and 2, Giotto could be as much as 6,000 miles off the route projected to take it within 300 miles of the snowball. That much of an error could send it either too far from the nucleus to get the desired results or crash it into the comet. Says ESA's Bonnet: "This is going to be the most difficult observation ever made in interplanetary space...
Kirkland couldn't crash the goal line in four tries, so Quincy moved in for the kill...
...largest group of U.S. business leaders to visit Viet Nam since the end of the war. A two-day stopover in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) provided the travelers with poignant reminders of the conflict. At one point, the group was escorted to the crash site of a B-52 bomber that had been shot down over Hanoi in December 1972. A U.S. insignia was still visible on the wreckage. The Newstour met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach and aging Premier Pham Van Dong. In an interview that is excerpted in the World section...
Admittedly, Sweet Dreams suffers from the inevitability of its own storyline--before the movie even begins, we all know that the young wife/mother/country singer will die in a plane crash at the premature age of 32. Because the precise circumstances of Cline's life and death are so clearly explicated in the film's rushes and television commercials, we fight against the irresistible temptation of ticking off the years of her life as they appear on the screen in order to speed things up a bit. When, at about three-quarters of the way through the picture, Cline...
When a passenger jet crashes, the airline involved and the manufacturer of the plane often square off in lengthy court battles to determine who was at fault. Meanwhile, the families of the accident's victims have to wait months or even years for compensation. That may not happen to relatives of the 524 people who were killed in the August crash of a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747. Last week in a highly unusual step, the Seattle-based aircraft maker agreed, for the time being, to share equally with JAL the compensation costs in an effort to ensure swift payment...