Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 1983, the couple died in a plane crash in Chile, leaving no wills. Under California law, Michael Rios, Mario's son by an earlier marriage, is entitled to his father's share of the estate. Elsa's share goes to her 65-year-old mother. The discovery of the embryos has, however, raised a number of questions. Do they, for example, have any rights of inheritance? To whom do they belong, and who has jurisdiction over their fate? Most basic of all, do they have a right to life...
That's exactly why Holsworth is at Harvard this week. Along with 127 other college admissions officers and high school guidance counselors. Holsworth is attending Harvard's Summer Institute on College Admissions. Their goal getting a crash course on the ins and outs of the college admissions process Boston, Hartford, New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh--have committed themselves to showing the Ivy League Game of the Week, but Frank said he was confident all of the stations would sign on by the fall...
...which the Goliath machine was not designed. I thought for a few moments that the plane would be torn apart." Much of the account is touching and personal; Shirer tells of his marriage to an Austrian woman, the difficult birth of their daughter, their brief vacations while the crash of Europe rumbles in the background, his worry as shaky news-service jobs wash out from under him. His account of trying to get CBS to pay attention to the imminent annexation of Austria, while a New York executive insisted that he set up a series of children's choir...
...that was before The Crash and the Great Depression that followed--and bore me in its wake. For me, Harvard was classes in the hallowed halls, chances to sample the well-honed observations of Kittredge, Lowes, Whitehead and Copeland. But it was also mile-long walks from my family home in North Cambridge, meals at a cafeteria in the Square, and long subway rides three times a week to my uncle's drugstore in South Boston, where I waited on customers two nights a week and all day on Sunday...
...considered mainly because of her gender, not her qualifications. But she adds, "If I weren't capable of doing the job, I wouldn't be talked about." Naysayers bemoan her lack of expertise in arms control and foreign policy. Ferraro feels the Budget Committee has been a crash course on the economy ("I can debate that with anyone"), and working on the Democratic platform has refined her views on other domestic issues. A trip this year to Central America produced strong doubts about U.S. policy there ("We're just going about it all wrong"), and she returned...