Word: crash
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...second major plane crash in Britain in three weeks. On Dec. 21, a Pan Am jet bound for New York from London blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. That jet had also just departed from Heathrow. A bomb was blamed for the crash. The two crashes are apparently unrelated...
Working with unusual urgency, experts at a British army ordnance laboratory in Kent took only days to determine the cause of the crash. From wreckage recovered near the devastated rural town of Lockerbie, they examined a ripped suitcase, fabric from some passenger seats and fragments from a metal bin in which checked luggage was packed and then rolled into the cargo hold of the Pan Am 747 at London's Heathrow Airport. Two pieces of the container's framework were pitted and showed other signs that a "high-performance plastic explosive" had erupted near them. Scotland Yard's antiterrorism branch...
Like a remarkably rugged, durable automobile, America's economy has motored through some of the harshest possible conditions without losing its momentum. The recovery has dodged hazards ranging from the October 1987 stock-market crash to last summer's drought. The longevity of the expansion, one of the Reagan Administration's proudest legacies, defies all odds. During the past 130 years, the U.S. economy has suffered a recession on the average of once every 4.3 years. But the current growth period, now entering its seventh year, is by far the longest peacetime boom in U.S. history. The economy, says Lawrence...
...White House and Congress, while the short-term management rests in Alan Greenspan's hands. All three will have to tinker carefully and deliberately with the creaky recovery if they hope to get many more miles from it. The economy may have survived a stock-market crash in '87, but its ability to handle the tight corners and potholes of '89 and '90 cannot be taken for granted...
...Organization that Arab rejectionists, aroused by P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat's decision to acknowledge Israel's right to exist, were likely to punctuate their anger with an act of savagery. On Friday, after visiting Pope John Paul II in Rome, Arafat said that if sabotage had been behind the crash, "it is a criminal action we condemn...