Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the hordes of college students bring lots of money into Ft. Lauderdale, the clink of the cash register is often accompanied by the crash of breaking glass...
During the past few months, the skies have seemed increasingly treacherous for commuter planes. The craft, defined as capable of carrying up to 30 passengers, have been involved in seven crashes and 56 deaths since November. By comparison, during the period 1980-86 commuter airlines averaged only 26 fatalities a year. Last week T. Allan McArtor, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, announced a six-month probe into what appears to be an ominous trend. FAA inspectors will single out the 20% of 173 U.S. carriers with the worst safety problems, then make in-depth field inspections of those airlines...
...surprise about the present expansion has been its ability to survive one hazard after another. Even the worst stock-market crash in history, the 508- point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average last Oct. 19, failed to throw the economy off course. The expansion's resilience has prompted economists to ask some searching questions: What is keeping growth going? Is the traditional business cycle a thing of the past...
...there in your spaceship, but I really miss you. You're still the only other beings from Melmac who I know survived when the planet blew up. A lot of amazing things have happened to your old buddy Gordo since you last heard my signal, soon after I crash-landed through the Tanner family's garage roof and decided to stay here in sunny California. There are drawbacks: this place earth is so outsville you can't buy a whisker omelet or a tabby-paw pie. Here, when people stroke cats, they aren't even trying to get the meat...
...Holmes a Court (the name dates from the Norman Conquest, in 1066) carried out his fire sale with characteristic decisiveness. The first glittering piece of his empire to go was his 10% holding in Texaco, valued at more than $800 million before the crash. Holmes a Court sold half his shares to U.S. Financier Carl Icahn in November for $360 million, at an estimated loss of $65 million. Other items: an 8% stake in the British retailer Sears PLC, sold for $300 million (loss: $41 million), and a 16% stake in Australia's Pioneer Concrete Services (loss: $54 million...