Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realities of local pride and politics have learned to regret it. The most recent example is Sime Darby, a rubber and palm-oil conglomerate in Malaysia that had been one of the stouter remaining pillars of Britain's overseas commercial empire. That pillar fell with a crash over New Year's with an upheaval on the board of directors that put the company under effective control of the Malaysian government and had all the elements of a Graham Greene novel -intrigue, nationalism and more than a pinch of imperial smugness...
...Charlie, 40, has had many close calls in his ten years as a helicopter pilot in the Alaskan bush, but his luck ran out when a sudden gust of wind caught his chopper near Juneau, causing it to crash in flames. Nearly three-quarters of his body surface was charred, and doctors at Seattle's Harborview Hospital burn center had serious doubts that he would survive. Yet, after 30 long months of treatment, including ten operations just to reconstruct his burned hands, Charlie is back in Alaska piloting helicopters...
...Crash of '79, Erdman...
...bareknuckled infighting, just a neat, orderly succession from one leadership to the next. This relatively halcyon condition dates from the late 1940s, when Walter Reuther, the progressive ideologue who headed the union for 24 years, built a durable power base. After Reuther's death in an airplane crash in 1970, two men vied for his mantle: Leonard Woodcock, the intellectual chief of the union's General Motors division, and Reuther's apparent favorite, Chrysler Department Head Douglas Fraser. When it seemed certain that Woodcock had garnered 13 of the U.A.W. executive board's 25 votes, Fraser...
...Crash of '79, Erdman...