Word: crash
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...exactly coveted the job, telling anyone who'd listen until a few months ago that he harbored no presidential ambitions. But in a scenario eerily reminiscent of India's Gandhi family - in which Rajiv found greatness thrust upon him after Indira's preferred heir, Sanjay, died in a plane crash - Bashar may have had no choice after his elder brother, Basil, died in a car crash. Like Rajiv Gandhi, Bashar had been educated in Britain before returning home to reluctantly fill a deceased parent's shoes. And Syria's brutal authoritarian tradition certainly offers Bashar plenty of reason to sweat...
...rate parents--good, satisfactory or less than satisfactory--on points including whether they get their children to bed on time or show up for school events. Parents who accrue enough demerits risk the equivalent of academic probation: a house call from a district volunteer or an invitation to a crash course in child rearing...
...four-hour crash course provided an overview for tutors, aiming to inform them about sexual harassment and assault issues before they started attending the more specific monthly sessions...
July 1997 Two Harvard students, Deshaun R. Hill '99 and Harvard C. Nabrit Stephens '99, die in a car crash in Monterey County, Calif...
...million Cost of a disabled space-research satellite, which NASA will crash into the Pacific in early June...