Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lieut. Fusata Iida turned to strafe Sands, but the sailor fired another BAR clip, then ducked the bullets that pocked the armory's wall. As Iida's Zero climbed again, gasoline began streaming from his fuel tank. Before takeoff, Iida had said that any pilot whose engine failed should crash his plane into the enemy, so now he turned for a last attack. For one incredible minute, the two enemies faced and fired at each other, Iida from his crippled Zero, Sands with his BAR. Then the Zero nosed into a highway and smashed into pieces...
Common sense -- and the laws of physics -- dictate that a large automobile will provide greater protection from injury in an accident than a smaller one. A crash test conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on a 3,900-lb. Ford Crown Victoria and a 1,900-lb. Subaru confirmed that logic. But Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, claims that smaller cars are nearly as safe when they are equipped with air bags and that tests proving this were ignored by the Federal Government. The group accuses the government of playing politics with the test results in order...
...deadlier nuclear bombs. But the same computers that can locate a missile in outer space can also be used to find oil deposits in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and over the past decade a growing percentage of supercomputer sales have been to industry. Today supercomputers are used for everything from crash-testing cars to designing fuel-efficient aircraft...
From the moment of his appointment last May following the death of Republican John Heinz in a plane crash, Wofford, a Great Society liberal, began transforming himself into a Huey Long-like Democratic populist. In one early move, Wofford rejected the $150,000 he was supposed to receive for mass mailing expenses. In another, he renounced the $23,200 pay raise the Senate had voted itself. "There's a national recession out there," said Wofford. "Now is no time for us to be paying ourselves more of our taxpayers' hard- earned dollars." Wofford gave the extra money to a charity...
Other popular toys include not one, but two homemade rocket cars powered by carbon dioxide fire extinguishers to illustrate Newton's Third Law. Donning crash helmets, aviator scarves and goggles, the professors pilot the rockets across the stage of a Science Center lecture hall, while offstage, Rueckner and his troupe simulate a crash...