Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Until the number of squirrels exceeds 450, the number the mountain can support, they will be in jeopardy of extinction," says Warshall. "The squirrels' population has fallen due to a bad cone crop. The extreme fluxuation in their food supply due to tree cutting may cause their population to crash...
...looks like your average sitcom teenager -- gangling, shy, his boyish face framed by a mop of dark curly hair. Until he sits down at the piano. Then, all of a sudden, Evgeni Kissin, who just turned 19, grows up. Big, powerful hands crash down on the keyboard with the assurance of a performer three times his age. His tone is full-blooded yet lyrical, a mature sound that most fine pianists need years to achieve. Only his interpretations betray his youth, but that is precisely what is right about them. Dashing, impetuous and seemingly spontaneous, Kissin's playing...
...have been sending `crash crew' workers up there," said Dieterich...
...generation that was caught up in the great debt liquidation of the '30s never got over it. If you had started work in the '50s on Wall Street, you would have heard a lot of talk about the Crash. Even 20 years later, it would have defied, never mind financial common sense, it would have defied known laws of physics to the bankers in the late '70s had anyone presented to them the proposition that an airline should be leveraged. "What? You are talking about a labor-intensive, highly unionized, highly cyclical commodity-driven business being leveraged...
Engulfed by a ball of flames, at least 128 people died, making this crash China's worst reported air disaster. Among the dead was the hijacker, later identified by provincial party officials as Jiang Xiaofeng, a 27-year-old "active criminal...