Word: disasterous
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The barriers of race may be less blatant, but they are no less formidable. Hailing a change in racism's form as its eradication may provide short-term comfort. But it ensures rather than avoids long-term disaster.
Not only that, but the closure had turned into a PR disaster for Israel. Clashes with stone-throwing protestors were bad for business. TV images of Bethlehem schoolgirls suffering the effects of an errant tear-gas cannister certainly didn't help. And then the Vatican complained that pilgrims couldn't...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The National Transportation Safety Board stuck to its guns today, ruling that ValuJet Flight 592 which plunged into a Florida swamp was brought down by a fire ignited by loaded chemical oxygen generators. The NTSB was even-handed in aportioning blame, saying SabreTech, ValuJet and the FAA are...
I was stunned by the crass reference to the Russian space station Mir as a "Rube Goldberg contraption" [NOTEBOOK, July 28]. Mir was built and has operated on a virtual shoestring for more than twice as long as intended by its original design specifications. While it is not sophisticated by...
The official NTSB line, though, is that it will take days, possibly weeks, to pinpoint the cause of the crash. The Boeing 747 was carrying 254 passengers ? including 13 Americans ? when it went down, ending the lives of more than 200. Earlier this week, TIME's Elaine Shannon said crash...