Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone who has given hostages to fortune by marrying and having children knows ! that the normal 3 a.m. horrors take on an astonishing new awfulness under those conditions. Nightmares of the crippling disease, the car crash, the sociopath bedevil the spouse and parent. And they do so, for some reason, in perverse proportion to how healthy, loving and prosperous a family really...
...Rwandan Patriotic Front for shooting down the plane; the rebels and others suspected hawkish extremists within Habyarimana's presidential guard. The same night, the massacres in the streets of Kigali began as Hutu sought revenge. Eight weeks and several hundred thousand lives later, the true cause of the crash is still a mystery...
...Will the crash ever be explained? U.N. officials have yet to conduct an investigation. "It is on our agenda," said U.N. spokesman Pierre Mehu late last week in Kigali, the same day U.N. headquarters was struck by rocket fire. "We have a lot of other problems on our hands...
...putting out a video game with a swastika in it, or an American Airlines ground crew's ordering a change of pillows after a gay-rights group exited the aircraft. Once in a while, companies apologize to avoid a libel suit, as nbc did after it rigged a crash test so a General Motors pickup truck would be sure to explode...
...worst plane crash in China's history killed 160 today, raising more concerns that the booming air-transit business there is understaffed and poorly equipped. The Chinese airline industry has long had a troubling safety record, made worse in recent years by a proliferation of used Russian aircraft in its fleets. Today's tragedy, which included two American passengers, involved a Soviet made...