Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nuclear plants have an impressive worldwide safety record. Government inspections abroad are generally just as tough as in the U.S., and often tougher. Very few accidents like the near meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island in 1979 have been reported anywhere else in the world, and no mishap has received comparable publicity...
Michael Jackson's fiery mishap renews concerns about safety The elaborate $1.5 million commercial for Pepsi-Cola was being taped in front of 3,000 fans at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Four times Singer Michael Jackson glided down a staircase toward Jermaine and his three other brothers as a pyrotechnic display was set off behind them...
Accidents can happen, of course; but when they happen to pop superstars, people take notice. Jackson's mishap has further roiled long-simmering concerns in Hollywood over safety on the set. Many industry observers are questioning whether TV and movie directors have become reckless in their pursuit of ever more dazzling special effects...
...special military and intelligence units to infiltrate Tripoli under the cover of the naval gunfire and assassinate the P.L.O. chairman. When it realized what the Israelis had in mind, according to these sources, the Reagan Administration intervened by insisting that the U.S. wanted the Palestinians removed from Tripoli without mishap. Only then did the Israelis stand down and allow the evacuation to proceed...
Following an initial night of troubles on Thursday, McGinnis added, security measures taken by the organizers successfully prevented further mishap. This included a 50 member patrol of Harvard students to enforce an 11:15 p.m. curfew. The only other trouble after Thursday came when nine students were sent home for drinking...