Word: fatality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although I wasn't in Providence when it happened, Brown did beat Harvard last year--coincidentally, in the fatal second weekend of the season. There is a long way to go until the postseason rolls around in March, and in the long run this game was no more important than Saturday's 7-2 shellacking of helpless Boston College...
Even for sisters, Rania and Soha Rida shared a lot. They were happily planning a joint wedding since each was engaged to an EgyptAir steward. But hours before the EgyptAir Flight 990's fatal crash on Oct. 31, neither of their prospective mates was in a cheery mood. Rania says that in a telephone chat, Hassan Farouk expressed misgivings about the trip, muttering about "technical problems." Soha told an Egyptian weekly that Mohammed Galal was dreading a "very bad flight...
...sort of human, rather than technical, problem with the flight. Especially now that the flight data recorder, recovered earlier in the week, revealed that the plane had been taken off autopilot shortly before the crash -- and that both engines were shut off seconds before the 767 made its final, fatal descent. "Someone on that airplane was trying to make that airplane crash and they succeeded," a former United Airlines pilot with 7,000 hours flight time in 767s told the Associated Press...
...Sharpton, typically, attempted to dodge responsibility. He claimed to have no connection to the protests, though he had been caught on videotape leading a protest on Dec. 2, only six days before the fatal arson. Then Sharpton maintained that "we never said we were going after whites or Jews." Unfortunately for Sharpton, his "white interloper" speech had similarly been caught on tape...
...current 4.2%. Add to that the challenges of meeting tough demands from Big Business customers, avoiding the pitfalls of e-commerce and financing a fledgling firm without losing control, and you've got a climate for small businesses that is at least as challenging, and sometimes as fatal, as a sharp business downturn...