Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quickly dying are the days when cocktail-party chatter revolved around the rapidly appreciating value of a suburban house on a half-acre lot. Already dead is the tennis-court talk about coin collections and Krugerrands. Millions of Americans are now taking a crash course in a new savings strategy: how to make money during a period when the rate of inflation is declining, a phenomenon known as disinflation...
...Algerian team was dispatched to the scene to investigate the crash, the soft-spoken Benyahia, a prominent figure in Algerian politics ever since the country's struggle for independence from France, was mourned as a senseless casualty of the conflict. Said Algerian President Bendjedid Chadli: "What makes it more painful is that he died while embarking on a noble peace mission...
DIED. Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, 50, Algeria's astute Foreign Minister and a key negotiatior in the release of the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran; in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances while on a peace-seeking mission to end the Iraq-Iran war (see WORLD); near the Iran-Turkey border. The ascetic-looking Benyahia was a guerrilla fighter and a founding father of the Algerian revolution of 1954-62. In 1979 he became Foreign Minister and played a decisive role in the postwar reconciliation between his country and France. After mediating the hostage crisis, he formally handed over...
...equaled perhaps by only one other scientist, Einstein himself. But his fall was even swifter than his rise. He was a political innocent who had never read a newspaper or current-affairs magazine until he was in his mid-30s and did not hear, incredibly enough, about the Great Crash of 1929 until long after it had happened. At Berkeley he associated mostly with leftists-his lover and his brother were both Communists-and although he was never a Communist himself, he lent his name to left-wing organizations...
...VERMIN HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH . So proclaims the spray-painted graffito on a truck sprawled by a desolate stretch of road in this low-budget Australian thriller. At first horrified glance, moviegoers may be convinced that the vermin have also inherited the movie industry. In The Road Warrior, cars crash, somersault, explode, get squashed under the wheels of semis. Skinless bug-eyed corpses hurtle toward the screen. A mangy dog sups at a coyote carcass. A deadly boomerang shears off fingertips, creases a man's skull. That's entertainment? As a series of isolated incidents, no; our nerve...