Word: crash
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Throughout most of American history, bank failures occurred with dismal regularity, and consumers had no protection from them. Even in the booming 1920s, banks closed at the rate of about 500 a year. The failure rate rose sharply during the four years following the 1929 stock-market crash, when a total of 9,000 banks closed. With the entire financial system in shambles, President Franklin Roosevelt in March 1933 closed all the nation's banks for four days to quell the panic. Institutions declared sound by federal and state officials were reopened, and Congress began writing new banking laws...
...other violations, the FAA contended that the airline falsified safety records, failed to train its pilots properly, postponed aircraft inspections and allowed unqualified mechanics to maintain electrical gear. The emergency grounding gives credence to suspicions that were aroused in September by a tragic error. A propeller-driven PBA plane crash-landed and burned shortly after taking off from a Naples, Fla., airport; one passenger was killed and four others were injured. It was the first fatality in PBA's history. FAA investigators found that a member of PBA's ground crew had mistakenly filled the plane...
...become traditional for our presidential election coverage, TIME went to press four days earlier than usual, and will keep its special issue on the newsstand for eleven days. Its crash-close deadlines called for the presses to start only 15 hours after the last polls closed...
...India. We saw her at the White House, resplendent in her brocades, charming President Kennedy. We saw her as an international leader of the non-aligned movement and the Commonwealth of Nations. We saw her haggard face as she knelt upon the ground examining the remains of the plain crash which had claimed the life of her son. We saw her at home, in jail, at conferences, at rural project inaugurations. We saw her everyday, in the newspaper, on the movie screens and more recently, as India made another step forward in telecommunications, on our television sets. One could even...
...security design in your operating system security within the applications can't be well maintained," says Ashton. Nonetheless, security per se is not generally acknowledged to be the responsibility of the manufacturer. "It's not General Motors' responsibility to enforce the speeding law . . . but one can make cars more crash-resistant," says...