Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time the men's hockey game had finished, the bus company had sent up a spare vehicle, so everyone was able to go home for the pure joy of studying for finals. For those scoring at home, Saturday marked the second straight bus mishap (the same piece of scrap metal, nonetheless) for the icemen--their bus broke down in Vermont after a game in Clarkson, and they had to wait two and a half hours until a spare vehicle was delivered...
...Force investigator probing the April mishap in which two U.S. Army helicopters were downed by friendly fire over Iraq recommended that no charges be brought against the only pilot facing judicial action (two F-15s were responsible for the shooting). If senior commanders accept the recommendation, only one person -- the senior officer on board the AWACS plane monitoring the area's air traffic -- could face a court-martial for the accident in which 26 people perished...
...researcher at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, was quarantined and put under treatment for a potentially fatal infection he contracted after a lab mishap exposed him to a rare virus he was studying. To avert the spread of the microbe known as Sabia virus, health officials are keeping under observation at least two dozen people in Connecticut and Massachusetts with whom the unidentified researcher had contact after the accident...
Opponents of capital punishment charged that the mishap again proved that the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. "A lot of people think lethal injection is like putting a dog to sleep," says Kica Matos, research director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Capital Punishment Project. "But things still go wrong with all types of executions. It's as gruesome and barbaric as torture." Of 237 executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Matos estimates, 18 have been "botched." Gacy's was among the least painful...
After the disastrous weekend, the FIA board of directors met in emergency session, but the only decision it made was one designed to improve safety in the pits -- a reaction to a relatively minor mishap in which a wheel flew off a car and hurtled into the Ferrari pit, injuring three mechanics. The federation also announced that it would study the possibility of installing speed controls on Formula One cars, and that it would consider requiring the installation of air bags to prevent the kind of head injuries that apparently killed Ratzenberger and Senna. After the race, Italian officials launched...