Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something unprecedented had happened. Not only had the plane's tail engine lost its cone, but its fan had literally shattered. The disintegrating engine somehow flung shrapnel-like chunks of hot metal past the chamber designed to contain any such breakup. The pieces apparently ripped into all three hydraulic lines that converge at the tail, killing or at least vastly reducing hydraulic pressure...
...past ten years, the DC-10 has had a safety record that compares favorably with those of other wide-bodied jets. That is cold comfort to the families of the 110 passengers and crew who did not share in the miracle in that Iowa cornfield...
...costs have risen, the past decade has seen an explosion in prepaid, "managed" care. More than half of all physicians work in some kind of group practice, most commonly a health-maintenance organization. Patients pay a flat annual fee in exchange for care that is provided by HMO member doctors. As private corporations, many HMOs can be quite profitable -- so long as their patients do not get too sick. The number of patients enrolled in HMOs has doubled in the past five years, to 32 million, often at the urging of cost- conscious employers. The goals: efficiency through greater competition...
...said that the film was inspired by incidents of racial violence in New York over the past decade: the Howard Beach incident three years ago, when a young Black man was chased onto a highway by a gang of white thugs and killed by a motorist; the death of an elderly Black woman Eleanor Bumpurs, who was shot by New York police; and the death of Black graffiti artist Michael Stewart, who was killed in the custody of six New York police officers...
Similarly, he said, fears that the past year's weather might have signalled the beginning of a global warming process are probably misplaced...