Word: horrors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...junior year of high school, in United States History, we learned about voting patterns in our dear country. I sat wide-eyed in disbelief-nobody voted, nobody cared, propositions and presidents were put in place by a measly proportion of the population. The horror, the horror...
...that, you could add, "Given that this is a horror film, I really would like to see mild violence and uncreative forms of slaughter." I'll tell you, although you know them already: there's a drive-by hanging, an in-bed strangulation, an over-the-radio death chase. The camera makes the requisite turns around corners, blood flies freely, but your adrenalin will get pumping only if you are an undemanding horror...
Airline executives deny that they engage in anticompetitive practices, contend that individual horror stories don't reflect the industry's generally good service record and argue that the benefits of the hub system far outweigh its drawbacks. "It allows medium-size cities like Sacramento to have one-stop service to 200 cities," says American spokesman Chris Chiames. "If we didn't have the hub system," asserts Northwest spokesman Marta Laughlin, "we wouldn't have the number of passengers that are needed for the volume of service we offer. You pay a premium for convenience and accessibility...
...young Rene. He would have his own story now. Tethered to his 88-ft. boat and wearing 100 lbs. of equipment, he dropped slowly into the grave: 50 ft., 100, 150. At 180 ft., he was on the ocean floor with about 25 ft. of visibility, standing in the horror...
...seem eerily similar to that of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades in 1996. As a result, the Swissair disaster has attracted fresh attention to inexpensive devices already widely deployed in private corporate jets--but not in commercial aircraft--that can help protect pilots and passengers from the horror of a smoke-filled cabin...