Word: crashing
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...crash of Avianca Flight 52 on Long Island's North Shore, which killed 72 of the 161 people aboard, was the first major air disaster in the U.S. since the United Airlines DC-10 crash in Iowa last July that killed 111. But for Colombia's national airline, it was the third serious mishap in eleven months. Counting last November's terrorist bombing of a Boeing 727, the disasters have taken 279 lives...
Massive system failures dramatize the trade-off that occurs whenever a high- tech system replaces a low-tech one. Because most electronic systems are thoroughly interconnected, their failures tend to be all-or-nothing affairs. They do not, as computer scientists put it, degrade gracefully; they crash. Moreover, what is gained in speed and productivity is often lost in control, reliability and -- for lack of a better word -- transparency. When a system of gears and levers stops working, its operators can roll up their sleeves, raise the hood and go to work. When a microchip goes bad, its circuits...
...Educated at Harvard and Oxford, she rallied from imprisonment and exile to return to Pakistan in 1986 and confront General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the country's military ruler and the man who executed her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. When Zia's death in a mysterious plane crash in 1988 opened the way for Pakistan's first regular elections in a decade, Bhutto, only 35 and the mother of a two-month-old son, led her father's Pakistan People's Party through a raucous campaign to victory -- an unprecedented achievement for a woman in an Islamic country...
...said the road leading to the crash site was clogged with emergency vehicles...
...area of the crash is near Oyster Bay Harbor on the north shore of Long Island, just south of the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, home of President Theodore Roosevelt. It is a isolated, wooded area of expensive homes...