Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cruise meets with emotional setback when his best friend and fellow pilot/driver (Michael Rooker in Thunder) dies in plane crash/incurs brain damage in car crash, which he blames himself for. Begins to doubt his abilities and can't fly/drive anymore. Looses nerve in aerial engagements/NASCAR races...
...Fairchild Publications' M, a clothes-conscious men's periodical. The new title: M inc. Manhattan, inc. lost more than $8 million over six years, says publisher D. Herbert Lipson. Its ad base was crippled when New York's financial and real estate markets went dry. The 1987 stock-market crash stole the magazine's indispensable asset: high-flying Wall Street targets to shoot down. The magazine also lost some of its edge when founding editor Jane Amsterdam was replaced by Clay Felker...
...white pulpy fiber scatters in a plume beside him, and in 90 seconds, 4 ft. of searing steel have ripped through the thick bark, the thin film of living tissue and the growth rings spanning ages. With an excruciating groan, all 190 ft. of trunk and green spire crash to earth. When the cloud of detritus and needles settles, the ancient forest of the Pacific Northwest has retreated one more step. Tree by tree, acre by acre, it falls, and with it vanishes the habitat of innumerable creatures. None among these creatures is more vulnerable than the northern spotted...
QUICK, THE RAID. Everyone knows that the computer industry is fighting against viruses, malicious programs that can infect whole networks and crash them. So it stands to perverse reason that hush-hush agencies like the CIA and NSA are trying to create such bugs as offensive weapons. The latest entrant in this quest is the U.S. Army, which is soliciting bids on a half-million dollar contract to develop tactical virus weapons capable of disabling enemy computers on the battlefield. The proposal has raised eyebrows among the military's hackers. Says one Army computer-security officer: "Many of my colleagues...
...same time, Trump began to suffer from management problems. Last October his casino operations suffered a tragic loss, when three of Trump's top-notch casino executives died in a helicopter crash. Among them was Stephen Hyde, 43, chief executive of Trump's gaming operations. "Steve knew how to force Donald to listen," says Jack O'Donnell, who headed the Plaza Hotel and Casino until he resigned in April. "Once Steve was gone, Donald had to get more involved in the business. He started operating the budget based on his ego, not on reality." As the opening...