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Grudgingly, painfully, the swamp that swallowed Flight 592 is surrendering parts of the jet, as well as human remains, but it has not yielded an exact answer to what caused the crash. Investigators, wading through thick heat, razor-sharp saw grass, toxic jet fuel and the almost cartoonish threat of alligators, first speculated that the 27-year-old DC-9 was struck down by some combination of age and poor maintenance. Now they are focusing on a new culprit: the 50 to 60 oxygen generators believed to have been stowed--perhaps mistakenly--in the forward cargo hold of the aircraft...
...unit. The second area, located in the U.N. base itself, was hit mainly by "proximity-fuzed" shells, which are designed to detonate above the ground so as to widen the radius of impact. The use of that ordnance, which is especially effective at killing and maiming, explains why an exact count of the dead has never been made: there were simply too many shredded body parts...
According to an office manager at the store, a significant amount of the store's merchandise was harmed in the fire, but the exact dollar amount of damages has not yet been determined...
...exact science," said Brian R. Blais '97, co-chair of the Levenson Committee and council vice president. "We are picking from people who have a CUE guide rating of 4.9 versus 4.8. It obviously comes down to gut feeling at a certain point...
Such hymns to synergy grate on the loose coalition of consumer advocates, labor and industry groups fighting the merger. "The industry is moving in the exact opposite direction of competition," fumes Bradley Stillman of the Consumer Federation of America. He may not be factoring in the World Wide Web, the information network that links computers and perhaps eventually phones and televisions. Bell Atlantic, says Smith, will offer Internet access and Web-based software even as it fights for long-distance, cellular and wireless turf. "This is not going to be a fight over plain old telephones," he vows...