Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hoster says, his "Jekyll and Hyde behavior"--personable and professional in public, enraged and profane in private--turned her life into "a living hell." Things only got worse in March when Zuberi, 18, the son and only child of McKinney and his wife Mina, died in a car crash...
...await completion of a probe by the National Transportation Safety Board. Major General Donald Sheppard, head of the Air National Guard, attempted to put events in a positive light by noting with satisfaction that his pilots--and airline passengers as well--are learning about the sensitivity of the crash-avoidance gear installed on airliners in recent years. Such onboard units "are alerting us to things that happened all the time that we never knew before," he said. "This is good news for us, I believe...
Also there was Gast, hired to make the movie by a firm called International Film & Records. After the fight he could not reach IFR for postproduction funds. Later he learned that the company's sole shareholder was Stephen Talbot, Finance Minister of Liberia. Talbot had died in a plane crash; his associate was executed in a Liberian coup, as Gast learned when he saw a TIME photo of the man standing before a firing squad...
...high ranking diplomat who caused a fatal car accident which killed a 16-year-old girl in Washington this past January. The decision, made by Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, clears the way for the arrest of George Makharadze who police say was drinking and apparently speeding before the crash. Early reports indicate the Justice Department may indict the diplomat on charges of involuntary manslaughter. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns commended the Georgian government's decision, calling the waiver "courageous" and rare in the annals of diplomatic history. The mother of the deceased girl, who has held nightly vigils...
...basketball team without a point guard is like an airplane without a pilot--it's bound to crash. Co-captain Jessica Gelman has been keeping the Harvard women's basketball team in the air all season. The personable 5'8 guard has been a vital force behind Harvard's push towards a second-straight Ivy title and has blossomed into one of the league's premier point guards...