Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab Airlines-was that he mistakenly overflew air space claimed by Israel. Even Israel's friends abroad were shocked by the assault on the unarmed passenger plane. President Nixon sent pointed messages of sympathy to Libya and Egypt, whose citizens accounted for most of those killed in the crash. Other Western nations, including France and Britain, made formal protests to Israel. They also mounted additional guards over Israeli embassies as well as Israeli aircraft landing at their airports...
...film "she would've been left in the dark about a lot more things. I don't want her to grow up with too many illusions." Why had the family let itself be filmed? Said Lance: "It's like who wants to die in an airplane crash, when you can commit suicide?" How would they have done the film themselves? Father Bill Loud answered: "We would have done more of a Laugh-In type of thing." The publicity didn't impress much: "I'm very big in a liquor store and very...
...Leonard Bernstein's television and film enterprises. Then Sir Rudolf Bing's successor as the Met's general manager, Goran Gentele, named Chapin as his assistant, although Chapin had never before held a job in an opera company. Last July Gentele was killed in a car crash in Sardinia, and Chapin got up from dinner to find himself acting head of the 90-year-old institution and one of the most powerful figures in the music world...
Early last year, in an unusual move, Sulzberger and a hand-picked group of younger Times executives attended an American Management Association course in team planning. After a week of twelve-hour sessions, Sulzberger named four new senior vice presidents and told them to put their crash training into immediate practice. Cost cutting and diversification have become the dominant motifs. Says James C. Goodale, 39, one of the new executives: "The fact of the matter is, we're running the company...
...years earlier when China was in the throes of recovery from a crash industrialization program, one of the Chairman's most outspoken right wing critics asserted that Mao had placed undue faith in politics rather than in economic realities. Mao responded with a threat to recruit a new Red Army which would overthrow the present Communist Party should it disobey him. He told his comrades, "You ought to try sleeping pills if you're tense...