Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homes and tall palm trees. The bulk of the airliner smashed into houses near Nile and Dwight streets, the more intact remnant of the Cessna about six blocks away. The terrified PSA passengers trapped in the plummeting craft died instantly on impact with the earth. "It was a nonsurvival crash," one investigator said. Indeed, the carnage left in the wake of the fireballing metal fuselage gave mute testimony to that. Scraps of clothing hung from telephone poles. Parts of a briefcase were found here, fragments of computer printout papers there, a pair of shattered glasses elsewhere. At St. Augustine High...
...complacency. The number of reported "near misses" of aircraft in flight has been increasing sharply, to 384 last year-and the safety experts believe that only a small portion of such perilous passings are reported. The overwhelming majority do not involve commercial airliners. But as the San Diego crash illustrates, the loss of life is large when the near miss involving a big passenger jet turns into an actual collision...
...wall in right. Clint Hurdle, the man who forced John Mayberry to learn the words to "O Canada," then slammed a belt-high fastball to right field. Reggie Jackson went back to the wall, jumped...and came down with nothing. Hurdle ended up with a triple, and after a crash-bang play at the plate for the second out, Patek hit Tidrow's final pitch out of the park...
...Crash of 79? Forget it. Oh, sure, there will be a quarter or two of very slow growth next year, but the odds are against anything that could even be called a recession. And if a recession does strike, it will be shallow and short...
...nation's output of goods and services, adjusted for inflation ?rose at an annual rate of 8.7%. That rate is obviously unsustainable, however, and a slowdown has already begun. Though no one?not even Author Paul Erdman?really believes the apocalyptic prophecies in his bestselling novel The Crash of 79, some serious forecasters fear a genuine slump next year...