Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the 24 hours after the disaster, experts were already speculating about a powerful bomb that may have found its way onto the plane or of people yet unknown who may have launched a small missile against the airliner from a vantage point as yet undetected. The stories were cautious...
There is already a small community of people whose legacy is grief. Every time a plane goes down, the Lockerbie families cringe. This time the parallels are almost unnerving: a night-time transatlantic flight destroyed most likely by a terrorist bomb shortly after takeoff. Richard Mack lost his younger brother...
Unfortunately, the essential Dole--a candidate too often disengaged even from his own policy prescriptions--re-emerged at an unscripted education forum outside Detroit. At one point, Dole missed a questioner's thrust entirely but smiled goofily as Michigan Governor John Engler preposterously declared Dole's response "right on." Sensing...
This is the real Dream Team. We know that the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team, which trademarked the name, is going to win in Atlanta, barring a natural disaster or an alien invasion. We know that Shaquille O'Neal is going to be slamming on Angola, that Gary Payton...
DIED. MELVIN BELLI, 88, flamboyant personal-injury and defense attorney dubbed the King of Torts; in San Francisco. Belli pioneered the use of "demonstrative evidence" (unveiling an artificial limb, baring a client's disfigurement) to win over juries, and took on a variety of mass-disaster cases, as well as...