Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Interior Minister Victor Yerin. Some veteran Moscow watchers are reminded of the last year of the Mikhail Gorbachev era, when the father of glasnost and perestroika tried to crack down on independence-minded Lithuania. Others watch Yeltsin take the lead, then fade, and recall Leonid Brezhnev's lingering, fatal lassitude...
...American Eagle commuter plane crashed on its approach to Raleigh-Durham International Airport in rainy and foggy weather, killing 15 of the 20 people aboard. The fatal accident was the second in two months for the shaken airline. Trying to allay mounting passenger fears, Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced that approval of toughened safety standards for commuter flights would be speeded up, but the Federal Aviation Administration said it could take a year to put the new rules in place...
...screenwriter Paul Attanasio are great guys to waste time with. As he's proved with Quiz Show, the latter has a real flair for writing strong, confrontational scenes -- brisk, needling, well shaped -- and the former stages them with coolly concentrated intensity. And the cast is terrific. Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Donald Sutherland as their boss is computer-like: he has an almost-human brain and a silicon chip where his heart should be. They...
...thick of the holiday travel season, American Eagle today grounded flights serving Chicago and five other Midwestern cities until Jan. 4. The commuter airline, beleaguered after two fatal crashes in six weeks and facing federal orders raising safety standards for all commuter aircraft, cited pilots' desire for more training in icing conditions. After grounding its entire Chicago-based ATR turboprop fleet Dec. 9 -- the models grounded in icy weather -- American Eagle had recently resumed the service with different planes. (An ATR model was involved in the Oct. 31 crash that killed 68 people in Indiana...
While diversification and commercialization prove fatal to some neighborhoods, this is not the case at Inman. Here, local businesses often encourage, rather than hinder, community cooperation...