Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week investigations were under way by the Interior Department, congressional committees and Idaho authorities to determine the cause of the June 5 disaster, which unleashed 80 billion gallons of water, killed at least nine people, injured more than a thousand, inundated 400,000 acres, devastated several communities, and caused...
She has plenty to tell. A former assistant to Hays recalls that when Liz Ray started working in the Congressman's office in the spring of 1974, she was a disaster: unable to type twelve words a minute, forgetting the names of callers, snapping at people. Soon she was...
Last year White lost $69 million on sales of $1.2 billion. Currently, White and its chairman, Semon E. ("Bunky") Knudsen, are in a desperate race against disaster. The company missed a May 1 deadline for repaying more than $100 million in short-term bank loans, and so far has failed...
Lerner's original idea, on which the entire show turned, was an incredibly complex white-black Upstairs, Downstairs, a slice of a century of White House life expressed as a play within a play. Last week the survivors of the disaster were wondering what went right. Given the magic...
Although the coming disaster was clear to all, it still astonishes the survivors. Says Ramin: "We would attend these meetings with Lenny and Lerner in the same room. It was marvelous to see these minds meet, so brilliant. We'd leave thinking that everything was fabulous." There were many...