Word: crash
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...whether this plane intended to take out the White House or the Capitol was found too badly damaged to provide any information. Only the kamikazes who got on United 93 in Newark were thwarted, after determined passengers decided to die "doing something about it" rather than let the terrorists crash the plane into their apparent Washington target...
...Press on Islamic fundamentalist leader Osama bin Laden is being moved up from next spring to November, with author Peter Bergen working on last-minute changes to bring his manuscript up to date. The book, "Holy War: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden" will be ready to crash to stores six weeks from now. Bergen is an analyst of terrorism for CNN, and one of the few Westerners ever to interview bin Laden, which he did in 1997. He has been studying him and his movement ever since...
Long, unlike most Americans, I am happy to say, fails to grasp the concept that when a group of people hijack four airlines and crash them into major U.S. landmarks, they have lost the privilege of reasoning through their grievances, and deserve not our empathy, but our wrath. The Twin Towers, above all else, stood as a symbol of rationality and human achievement, and it is this rationality that the suicide bombers of Sept. 11 sought to destroy...
...first day of trading since last Tuesday’s tragedy, and economic analysts have breathed a sigh of relief. Though the 680-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average was the largest in the history of the index, it was much smaller in percentage terms than the crash of 1987—which did not bring substantial economic distress. The financial world experienced severe personal and physical loss in the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, but like the country as a whole, it seems intent on rebuilding and moving forward...
Though the events of the past week brought economic life to a near-standstill, they also brought the world of work and finance into needed perspective as Americans stayed home to be with their families. The avoidance of a catastrophic crash would be good news on any morning. But today, it shows that the largest shareholders—the American people—have retained faith in their economy and in their future...