Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power of government--creating a new agency might be tough. But the Institute of Medicine has powerful logic on its side. Air travel in the U.S. is extraordinarily safe, thanks largely to the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA. They try to pinpoint the cause of every crash and, when a problem is identified, they may order the airlines to redesign equipment or improve training or adjust pilot schedules to reduce the chance of more accidents. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has driven down death and injury in the workplace. When not investigating actual incidents, these agencies study...
That's the anarchist's primal goal: to replace central government with the sort of self-sufficient, egalitarian collective now aborning at 918 Virginia Street, a largely vacant building on the edge of downtown Seattle. The "squat" popped up two weeks ago as a protesters' crash pad. About 100 people a night sleep there. There's no power or water, but organizers have set up a kitchen and security and toilet systems. House rules hang on one wall: NO ILLEGAL DRUGS, NO ALCOHOL, NO WEAPONS and so on, ending with NO VIOLENCE...
...more about the effects of drinking and driving this New Year's Eve than they do about Y2K," says TIME techonolgy writer Joshua Quittner. And that's exactly the kind of attitude the White House wants us to keep in mind as we inch toward the big moment: Computers crash, bags are lost and airplanes are late every day of the year. And there's no reason to think that New Year's Eve will be any different. Unless, of course, the rigorous preparations of the last year have smoothed our operating systems to the point that this winter...
...debus in front of the Inn at Harvard and proceed down Bow Street. I sniff out a small party in Adams A entry. I knock on the window hoping to be allowed in, but I am very purposefully ignored. Crash attempt failed...
...heads turn toward us with shocked looks as we enter the Winthrop JCR. We worry that this may be a tough crash. We vigorously integrate ourselves into the action, latching on to whomever we know, though our new and old friends seem a bit reluctant to claim...