Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...However, a report of looting has haunted San Diego and marred that very positive story. It can't be determined where the original rumor started, but it apparently was repeated by police and news media alike. There is absolutely no evidence that any looting occurred at the crash site or in the immediate vicinity...
Kahn, 61, was influenced in his choice of a career by the Great Crash. "I went into economics," he says, "because the world was suffering from catastrophic depression." The experience did not make him a partisan of Big Government; it convinced him instead of the strength of free enterprise. After a boyhood in Paterson, N.J., he graduated summa cum laude from New York University and earned his doctorate in economics at Yale. He started teaching at Cornell in 1947, and has remained on the faculty ever since...
Like most Massachusetts cities, Somerville has established no qualification standards for tax assessors, and assessors are elected--often on the basis of political connections--rather than appointed because of professional competence. Even John Howe says he would like to have assessors receive more training than their one-week crash course in real estate at the University of Massachusetts...
...disaster was the worst in aviation history, with a death toll of 583, including all aboard KLM's Rhine River and all but 61 people on Pan Am's Clipper Victor. Last week the Spanish government released the findings of an 18-month investigation of the crash. The verdict: KLM Captain Jacob Veldhuizen Van Zanten's decision to start his takeoff run without tower clearance was the "fundamental cause" of the accident...
...Dutch Aviation Service, a government agency, promptly described the Tenerife report as "very one-sided" and promised to publish its own analysis. Meanwhile, liability questions in the crash are still being settled: insurers have already paid out $50 million and 89 cases are pending...