Word: fire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bobbie Mardis, and FAA spokesperson in Oklahoma City where the agency's safety files are kept, said the aircraft's history also included an engine fire...
...work was highly influential from the 1950s until the late 1960s, when it began to draw fire from Marxist and other leftist critics who said Parsons' scholarship about the stability of systems masked a conservative defense of the status...
...brings back images of the great buffalo massacres of the 19th century. Since last October, Montana hunters have gunned down a record number of bison that have been roaming outside the bounds of fire-ravaged Yellowstone National Park, foraging on neighboring ranch and forest land. The state legislature made bison a big-game animal again in 1985, after game wardens had had to shoot 88 stray bison and hunters complained that the privilege should have been theirs...
...singular event, though, may have been the fire in 1983 that burned his home, his rugs, his art, his jazz records and just about every other material thing he owned. "The public sympathized with me, reached out to me," he says, "and even tried to replenish my record collection. I realized how self- absorbed I'd been and started to look at the fans differently. They started to see me too." Because other centers were elected, this week's All-Star game almost went on without him. But when Johnson was injured, Commissioner David Stern ruled that a center could...
...problem of his own. Newspaper reports disclosed that during Bush's eight years as Vice President, Gray made as much as $50,000 a year as chairman and a director of his family's $500 million communications company, while collecting his pay as Bush's counsel. Bush did not fire Gray, or even hold his nose. The President defended the legality and benign intent of his aide, showing the same kind of myopia toward one of his own that got Ronald Reagan in trouble. By midweek, however, Gray had resigned from the corporation and put his assets in a blind...