Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Action: A knock at the door of the jail. Guards, inmates and visitors swigging beer to celebrate the deputy warden's birthday are expecting a delivery of more brews. Surprise! Black-hooded renegades crash the festivities and escape with Billy Bibit...
...domestic tumult by "fainting all the time." O'Connor's sister began having extensive conversations with strangers in bus stations. And Sinead turned wild. She was busted for shoplifting and sent off first to reform school, then to boarding school. By the time her mother died in a car crash, her daughter hadn't seen her for nearly two years. "Her life never got better," O'Connor says, "and I suppose it was just as well that she died. But she was the person who, I suppose, meant the most to me. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn...
According to Israeli intelligence officials, Saddam ordered a crash program in 1987 to develop nuclear weapons. The Iran-Iraq war was then in its seventh year, and Saddam may have had Iran in mind as his first target. Baghdad already had in place a network of front organizations around the world that purchased materials for ballistic surface-to-surface missiles, chemical weapons and satellites. The Iraqis had even secured $3 billion in unauthorized loans from the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro to finance the purchase of industrial products in the U.S. The Iraqis also possessed about...
Ultimately, Hazelwood's fate turned on one question: whether he was drunk at the time of the accident. Witnesses testified that they had seen the captain drinking in Valdez bars on the afternoon before his ship set sail. The prosecution also introduced tests taken eleven hours after the crash that showed Hazelwood with a blood-alcohol level of 0.061%, higher than the Coast Guard's 0.04% limit for a seaman operating a moving vessel. But Hazelwood's lawyers suggested he might have imbibed after the accident occurred to settle his badly shattered nerves. The captain never took the witness stand...
...Acquired at auction in November 1987 for $53.9 million by the Australian conglomerator and promoter Alan Bond, Irises was the most expensive work of art ever sold. Its price created an artificial euphoria that bulled the world art market and helped save it from the October ( '87 Wall Street crash. The name of the underbidder was never revealed, raising suggestions -- indignantly denied by the auctioneers -- that the price had been manipulated. The sale was financed with $27 million lent by Sotheby's: a margin-trading deal in line with the stock-exchange ethics of the Age of Milken. The deal...