Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kuwait refuses us, a crash landing will take place on the...prince's palace," one hijacker radioed the control tower, referring to the ruling emir of the oil-rich state...
...struggle has become more desperate than ever in 1988, with the five-year economic expansion losing momentum. Few economists predict an outright recession this year, but the long-running consumer spending spree is expected to taper off considerably. While consumers seem to have taken the stock-market crash in stride, they are becoming worried about the debt load they are carrying. Result: the overabundant department stores, discount outlets and specialty boutiques will be fighting ever more fiercely for consumer dollars. Says Bernard Brennan, chairman of the Montgomery Ward chain: "There's no question about the upheaval in the industry...
...isolation of the "Wish-Fulfilling Gem" and his mountain kingdom was shattered as the Chinese attacked from eight different directions. Suddenly the teenage ruler was obliged to take a crash course in statesmanship, traveling to Beijing to negotiate with Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong. Finally, in March 1959, when a bloody confrontation seemed imminent as 30,000 steadfast Tibetans rose up against Chinese rule, the Dalai Lama slipped out of his summer palace dressed as a humble soldier and set off across the highest mountains on earth. Two weeks later, suffering from dysentery and on the back...
Nothing in this scene overtly suggests the imminence of comic catastrophe. But experienced readers of Thomas Berger will immediately put on their crash helmets and fasten the safety belts. Newcomers are advised to follow suit. The Houseguest, Berger's 15th novel, picks up some of the pieces scattered by the explosive anarchy of his Neighbors (1980). Once again, an apparently stable domestic setting warps and buckles into chaos, and kindred characters struggle to adjust to a world in which the outrageous has suddenly become the norm...
...more than a decade, West German environmentalists have warned of a major nuclear disaster if, for example, a plane were to crash into an atomic plant. Aware of the fact that more NATO air maneuvers take place in their skies than in those of any other alliance partner, West Germans had more cause than ever to fear the unthinkable last week. A French air force Mirage F1 fighter based in Strasbourg and flying in an exercise above southern Germany crashed and exploded in a wooded area about a mile from two nuclear power plants outside the village of Reichersdorf...