Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people died, including two flight attendants and a 14-month-old girl who perished with her parents. Astonishingly, 95 survived, some by climbing through a charred hole in the roof, others by clambering through emergency exits and across the burning wings. Fire fighters arrived within four minutes of the crash and managed to douse the fire with foam in another six minutes...
...writer is a mythmaker rather than a storyteller. Crammed into a short, intense novel, her characters are too busy hauling symbolic freight to reveal their humanity. The concluding work in the tetralogy may bring all her rich elements together. But do not bet on it, unless Erdrich takes a crash course from Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
...Wall Street for Weill, 55, who built the investment firm that has become Shearson Lehman Hutton. What gave Weill his opportunity was a strategic miscalculation by Primerica Chairman Gerald Tsai, 59, who paid a lofty $750 million for Smith Barney just a few months before last year's crash. The debt he incurred in buying the firm became burdensome when Smith Barney's brokerage business sagged after Black Monday. Weill, as head of the combined firm, intends to sell Primerica's mail-order businesses in plants and specialty foods. Then he aims to create a financial-supermarket firm comparable...
Nutarelli arrived too low and perhaps a split second early. On some videotapes, it appeared that his landing gear was extended, and photographs shortly before the crash clearly show the left main gear of his aircraft fully extended. Whatever the cause, he struck at least one of the other planes...
...Italy the Ramstein crash sent the nation into mourning, but also created a furious debate over the use of the Frecce Tricolori in air shows. The Italian air force restricted future appearances to nonaerobatic flyovers at military functions. Officials in Fribourg, Switzerland, quietly disinvited the Italians to an air show this weekend...