Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monaco. She was America's first princess, and the closest thing to royalty our country ever had. For most of her life, Grace Kelly's feet never touched the ground. So when she suffered a stroke last week that not only ravaged her brain but resulted in a car crash that mangled her body and seriously injured her daughter, it was almost as though some grand, cosmic accountant was exacting from her, in one lump sum, all the dues she never before had to pay. All along she had seemed exempt from the routine pains and troubles that plague...
...matter. You need to get closer to Saudi Arabia. Maybe you need to shake hands with King Hussein [of Jordan] after he was on no-speaking terms with your predecessor, Mr. Carter." Then, drawing himself even straighter, the Prime Minister shouted: "To us it is our life!" His fist crashed onto the table. "Our homeland!" Crash! "The land of our fathers and sons!" Crash! "Judea and Samaria will be for the Jewish people for generations upon generations!" Crash...
Nonetheless, some banking experts maintain that the agreement will not deter insider trading, but merely force the illegal transactions to be conducted in other banking havens, such as Liechtenstein, Panama or the Caribbean. Says Paul Erdman, a bestselling financial novelist (The Crash of 79, The Last Days of America), who spent ten months in jail for violating Swiss financial laws: "Insider trading will just have to be done a little more cleverly...
...throats. Fort Wayne, Ind., and Springfield, Ohio, each have their own branch of International Harvester, which has its headquarters in Chicago. But the company expects to keep only one of these two plants open. Says Fort Wayne Mayor Winfield Moses Jr.: "It's a boom or crash situation. If we lose, our unemployment goes from 12% recession to 21% depression. If we win, our unemployment goes down to 7%." The total job swing for the city is 17,000 positions...
...rule in question, issued in 1977 by the NHTSA under the Carter Administration, required the installation of automatic crash-protection gear starting with large-and medium-size automobiles as of this autumn. Not long after Ronald Reagan took office, NHTSA Administrator Raymond Peck postponed that deadline for a year, claiming that the Government needed more time to study the regulation. In addition, the agency was concerned about the auto industry's deepening financial troubles and was eager to help give automakers at least some relief from the added design and manufacturing costs that would have resulted from installing...