Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...photographer Greg Davis and I were in Hanoi for our first meeting with Ho Xuan Dich, director of the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Personnel. Dich's deputy, Ngo Hoang, had participated in the February 1990 joint U.S.-Vietnamese visit -- known in MIA jargon as an iteration -- to the crash site, a six-day trip topped off by an eight-hour slog up the side of a mountain. He reviewed the Vietnamese file on the case, the one the Pentagon lists as 0158. The joint team had interviewed witnesses who had seen a jet explode in midair, others who found...
...turn toward a prudent frame of mind may have begun with the stock market crash of 1987, which served as an early-warning system for the harsher realities that followed. Tycoons were brought low, and speculative bubbles were burst in everything from real estate to artworks. A junkyard of bad debt and bankruptcies stretched to the horizon. The gulf war heightened the crisis atmosphere and further trivialized the pursuit of the latest fashions in consumer products. There was a faint echo of the '40s: "Don't you know there's a war on, buddy?" While some questioned the battle...
Role-playing programs give them a crash course. At Hunterdon, students' faces are instantly aged with cornstarch and makeup. Next the disabilities are laid on: yellow goggles smeared with Vaseline distort vision, wax plugs dampen hearing, gloves and splints cripple fingers, and peas inside shoes impair walking. Then the ersatz invalids are asked to perform common tasks: purchasing medication at the pharmacy, undressing for X rays, filling out a Medicare form and, most humiliating, using the bathroom...
...what are we to make of the fact that "small investors are trading more actively than any time since the 1987 crash," as the Wall Street Journal reported last month? Could 1992 wind up being the worst stock market year of the '90s just as 1932, 1942, 1950, 1962, 1974 and 1982 were the worst years of their respective decades? In five of those six "worst years," FXC Investors notes, the Dow dropped well below its book value. The '60s were the exception; at its nadir, 536 in 1962, the Dow was 33% above book. But with today...
...four-sentence statement, Bush calls every alcohol-related traffic crash "a tragedy that doesn't have to happen." In addition, he urges hosts to "choose a designated driver before any drinking begins...