Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like we're standing under Niagara Falls, looking for a boat to get us out of here," McCurry said privately. Many in the White House had the air of experienced plane-crash investigators going about their business with grim efficiency. As with past scandals like Whitewater and Travelgate, the White House operation divided cleanly between the President's legal team--Charles Ruff, David Kendall, Bob Bennett--who didn't want Clinton to talk, period, and his political strategists, who wanted to send him out to calm the waters. And so, true to form, the President did both: gave his interviews...
...Jordan appears at Clinton's side at the direst of times. He was with Governor Clinton in 1980 after the young pol's bitter electoral defeat. He was with President Clinton on the night of Vincent Foster's suicide, the day of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's fatal plane crash, and the night consultant Dick Morris was thrown overboard at the 1996 Democratic National Convention because of a sex scandal. He knows how to clean up a mess. "The last thing he'd ever do is betray a friendship," Clinton once told the New York Times. "It's good...
Your report on the investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 [NATION, Dec. 22] referred to the Federal Aviation Administration's "sometimes contradictory mandate [which] requires it to tend both the airline industry's safety and its financial health." The FAA has not had a "dual mandate" since October 1996, when legislation stripping that anachronism took effect. The FAA is not responsible for the financial state of the aviation industry, and financial concerns were not a factor in the safety actions the agency took following the TWA crash. ELIOT BRENNER, Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs Federal Aviation Administration Washington
...queen hasn't been notified of the postponement, the second since the case began Dec. 7. In order for the suit to go forward, lawyers on both sides must be alerted. The case stems from rumors, widely circulated in the Arab world, that British intelligence arranged Diana's car crash because the royal family did not want the mother of a future king to marry a Muslim. El-Habishi is asking for the equivalent of $165,000 for "every Muslim in every part of the world...
Coverage during the early twenties consistedmostly of rewritten press releases but graduallyimproved as the decade progressed. High pointsincluded an interview with H. L. Mencken, thepolice-instigated "riot of 1927," in which severalHarvard students were assaulted by Cambridgepolice, and a plane crash that nearly exterminatedthe Harvard Band on Soldiers Field...