Word: crash
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Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, who supervised the selection and editing of the historic articles, had the formidable task of sifting through more than 3,000 issues of TIME. Some choices were easy: the Crash of '29, the start of World War II, the fiery dawn of the nuclear age over Hiroshima. Others, involving popular trends and celebrities, were less so, if only because there were so many candidates. "Putting the book together was a little like cooking," says Friedrich. "We were always looking for the perfect balance of ingredients...
...spirited him to Mexico. There he was handed over to Mexican authorities, who slapped him behind bars on fraud charges. Garcia told officials that he feared for his life, probably with good reason. The day after his jailing, another union boss, Oscar Torres Pancardo, was killed in a mysterious crash. In an apparent attempt to disguise the circumstances, his bodyguards fatally shot Torres' driver in the head. At a rare press conference, the perspiring Barragán nervously endorsed a government inquiry into the Torres death. Barragán then charged that he was the intended victim...
...doctors, the new rules mean a crash course in the one aspect of medicine that most never learned in medical school: finance. Over the past few months, hospitals have been distributing pamphlets to physicians, detailing the exact cost of every test, operation and medication, and offering instructions on how to cut out unnecessary expenses. Says Ben Bronstein, communications director of the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania: the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania: "Doctors are going to have to bite the bullet and ask themselves if they really need all those tests." Physicians who routinely order nose-to-toes X rays or prescribe...
...lies the society capable of authentic feeling. It possesses a vitality that dead societies have lost and a discipline that mobilized societies have forfeited. Korean Air Lines took out newspaper ads to apologize to the families and the nation for the tragedy that befell Flight 007. And after the crash of a Japan Air Lines jet last year, the president of the airline visited the families of the victims and knelt before them to ask their forgiveness. Such acts not only move us, they remind us that the authentic apology is indeed possible...
...puts in five hours administering her real-estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds where the Giants play). She never answers letters, for years has hardly glanced at a newspaper. But before her Tammany husband died in 1915 she spent eight years vainly trying to crash Newport society. The book found on her bedroom table in Newport was Burke's Peerage...