Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of the three young men were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash, the report indicated...
...would have thought a single car crash could have so much impact? Let's face it, this was the one week in history in which someone of Mother Teresa's caliber could have died and not end up as the lead story on the evening news (which would have suited the self-denying saint of Calcutta just fine). Once it was announced, the news from Paris loomed like a tidal wave that seemed to dwarf the rest of the world. All of a sudden nobody cared about Mir or Miami, the Olympics or E.coli; the People's Princess was from...
...Finally, it emerged that Dodi Fayed gave Princess Diana a $205,400 diamond "friendship ring" on the night the couple died. The ring was found in the wreckage of the car crash that killed them. Paris jeweler Alberto Repossi , whose store is near the Paris Ritz hotel where the couple shared their last meal, suggested the ring may have meant much more than friendship...
Unfortunate as it may be, Diana's death has become big business. Every TV network has seen around a four-fold increase in Nielsen ratings since Saturday night ? with well over a million turning to CNN alone. Post-crash pictures of the Mercedes, even though no newspaper has yet dared to publish them, are being valued at $1 million. Books are flying off the shelves: most Barnes and Noble stores were sold out of Diana biographies within hours of the accident...
...Henri Paul ? is threatening to sue photographers for damages. The lawyer, Bernard Dartevelle, launched the latest volley in his media offensive by stressing that a witness reported seeing a motorcycle zigzagging in front of the Mercedes in an apparent bid to try to slow it down, just before the crash. One of the attorneys representing paparazzi under investigation for manslaughter counters that the photographers are being targeted as "sacrificial lambs" in a prime-time case of "showbiz justice" aimed at pleasing the French Foreign Ministry...