Word: crash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British aviation expert remained suspicious of the botched Osaka landing as a possible cause of Flight 123's crash. William Tench, recently retired chief inspector of accidents at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, said he knew of cases in which it took three years before a crack became visible after an aircraft was heavily jolted. Japan's Ministry of Transport promptly ordered that the tail areas of all 747s registered in that country be re-examined, with special attention to the link holding the fin to the fuselage...
...workers call them. Finally, as dusk settles in, a single tree remains in the clearing, a majestic 120-ft. hardwood. Their 450-h.p. engines screaming, shrouded in black smoke, the monsters of steel advance. Bleeding at the trunk, mortally wounded, the century-old tree collapses with a crash...
...mood to listen to words of caution, even from well-known seers like Joseph Granville. When Granville issued his famous "sell everything" recommendation on Jan. 6, 1981, the Dow dropped 23.8 points in a single day. This year Granville issued The Warning, a book predicting a stock-market crash comparable to the disaster of 1929. Since the book appeared in September, the Dow has climbed 222 points. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
...proponents of the current House Ways and Means tax-reform bill are selling it primarily on the basis of how much it will cut taxes. The appeal is to greed rather than to our nobler instincts of common sacrifice for the common good. Robert D. King Kennebunk, Me. Gander Crash...
...white neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. Together they sang freedom songs and prayed for a more peaceful future. For black and white South Africans, it was an unusual display of racial harmony. The occasion: the funeral of Molly Blackburn, a leading white antiapartheid activist who was killed in an automobile crash...