Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boomers," born from 1946 to 1964, grew up in affluence: economic progress was assumed, freeing them to focus on idealism and personal growth. Young Xers, however, lurched through the recession of the early '80s, only to see the mid-decade glitz dissipate in the 1987 stock-market crash and the recession of 1990-91. Gen X could never presume success. In their new book Rocking the Ages, Yankelovich's Smith and his colleague Ann Clurman blame Xers' woes on their parents: "Forget what the idealistic boomers intended, Xers say, and look instead at what they actually did: divorce. Latchkey kids...
Midwest has a good record on safety, although it had one crash, which killed 31, in 1985. It has been profitable every year since 1987. Lately the fresh-cookie airline has pitched itself to pleasure travelers--though there are limits on how much it can push the price in that segment. Says Wally Durso, president of Travel Dynamics of Brookfield, Wis., a Milwaukee suburb: "I don't believe fares are No. 1. If Midwest Express is within $50 of a competing airline, a lot of my clients will go with Midwest Express...
DIED. AMY SVOBODA, 29, fighter pilot; after her A-10 jet plunged into the southwestern Arizona desert, in the first fatal crash of a female Air Force pilot...
...role on the court is to crash the boards incessantly and to score both as a post player and as an outside shooter. Her offensive versatility is part of what makes her so difficult to defend...
...shifted into high spin cycle after it was learned that the nonagenarian senator wrote a glowing introduction to a new book contending that the U.S. won the Cold War with alien technology recovered at the Roswell, New Mexico site that conspiracy buffs believe was the scene of an extraterrestrial crash landing in July 1947. Thurmond aides insist that "The Day After Roswell," by former Thurmond aide and retired Army intelligence officer Philip J. Corso, was not the book he thought it was. In his foreword, Thurmond praised Corso as a man "with many interesting stories to share with individuals interested...