Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NEW YORK: The FBI meant well. When assistant director James Kallstrom decided to tell victims' families he was closing his criminal investigation into the Flight 800 disaster for lack of evidence, says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon, "he didn't want them to read it in the morning paper."
The rest of the film follows Brackett as the strategically escalates the crisis to suit both his interests and (he thinks) those of the hapless Baily, who pulled the stunt only as a last-ditch effort to recover his job at the museum, and is bewildered by the chubbub he...
Last week the reverberations of that early July disaster reached Wall Street, following a brief and awful stopover in Hong Kong. The former British colony had formed the Maginot Line of money, vowing to use its $88 billion in foreign reserves to fight off speculators and keep its highly valued...
Several weeks earlier, before Foale replaced astronaut Jerry Linenger aboard Mir, the TV camera had quit at the last minute in a practice run, and Tsibliyev--one of the space agency's best pure pilots--had narrowly averted disaster. Now, with Foale onboard, the TV system once again operating and...
It is impressive, then, that the movie is able to execute this tried and true genre with as much competence as it does, given the self-imposed hurdle that it all happen in China. Jack Moore (Richard Gere) finds himself in China negotiating a cable television deal with the government...