Word: crash
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...flee. About three hours after the first incident, two more Chinooks set off from Bagram on a dual mission: to rescue Roberts and to insert more troops at Ginger. One of the choppers took heavy machine-gun fire. It shuddered and spiraled toward the ground but managed to crash-land less than a mile from the place the first pair had come under attack. As the troops clambered out of the wrecked MH-47, they were ambushed. Hagenbeck ordered AC-130 gunships to the battle to provide close air support, but the al-Qaeda barrage was so intense that...
...Valerie Chapman, widow of Air Force Technical Sergeant John Chapman, 36, who lived in Fayetteville, N.C., had the same thought. "You have to love it to do what they do," she said of her husband, who died with Anderson and four others in the fire fight after the Chinook crash-landed. "And he loved...
...Witness the carnage after the sharp, unexpected crash on corporate I.T. spending late in 2000: losses convinced IBM to all but abandon in-house PC manufacturing by farming assembly out to subcontractors. Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are trying to merge. Dell was hurt by the downturn, too. The company laid off 1,700 workers last year, its first redundancies ever. But it still managed to increase sales by 18.3% in 2001, showing a profit of $2.1 billion...
...Chapman, widow of Air Force Technical Sergeant John Chapman, 36, who lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina, had the same thought. "You have to love it to do what they do," she said of her husband, who died with Anderson and four others in the fire fight after the Chinook crash-landed. "And he loved...
...idea of the city's shape, but from the comparative open space of the river the view was unobstructed by tall buildings. Soon the city skyline, haunted by the skeletal remains of half-finished luxury hotels?relics of a building boom cut short by the economic crash?gave way to factories, villas and then modest villages on stilts, interspersed with gaudy, golden-roofed temples...