Word: decking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closed- circuit television monitor in the engine room. One of the engineers on , watch saw that water was entering the ship near the bow doors. Believing it was only rain, the crewmen activated the bilge pumps. But within minutes the sea was pouring into the lower car deck near the waterline, and the ship began rolling heavily onto its left side...
...first," said Roger Kohen, spokesman for the International Maritime Organization, based in London. "That is something from the age of chivalry." Perhaps there was no time for chivalry aboard the Estonia. Many children, mothers and elderly people were asleep in cabins deep within the ship. Patrons in the upper-deck bars were mainly males. "In the circumstances, it is clear who will survive," said Dr. Steffan Torngren, of Stockholm's Soder Hospital, where 31 victims were treated. "It would be those who are most fit, those who are young, those experienced with the sea and the ship...
Maritime officials suspect that some flaw in the Estonia's forward loading door -- or human error -- led to the flooding of the car deck. Information indicates that the outer bow door had jarred loose and may even have ripped off completely. "There are several eyewitnesses who say the bow door was missing when the ferry went down," said Bengt Erik Stenmark, Sweden's maritime safety director. Investigations into the disaster could result in demands for changes to the roughly 4,500 similar ships in operation worldwide. Some specialists advocate installing dividers in the car decks to check the force...
...drop in" on celebrities in Person to Person. Manipulating quiz shows to affect the outcome was hardly new -- or surprising. Two years before Van Doren admitted his sins, Time ran a story that began, "Are the quiz shows rigged?" and went on to detail ways producers stacked the deck in favor of certain players, like posing questions in a contestant's strongest area of knowledge. Fooling the public is a venerable show-biz tradition; the quiz-show producers found out, to their dismay, just how much fooling the public was willing to accept...
Instead of watching the Expos in the postseason for the first time in years, fans have been watching as general managers and managers were fired and then shuffled among teams, like a deck of cards, looking for jobs...