Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Snow and chilling frosts and death beneath the Potomac's icy waters...
...more than 230 people had died, victims of hypothermia (low body temperature), heart attacks and a variety of icy disasters. By far the most tragic accident was the crash in Washington, D.C., of a Florida-bound Boeing 737 that plowed across a traffic-clogged bridge over the Potomac and plunged into the icy river. The death toll: 78, including three infants. The most prominent explanation of the crash cited ice that may have glazed the plane's wings and tail, and could have acted as a drag on the aircraft as it took off during a snowstorm (see following...
Power failures in the Maryland suburbs of Washington left 2000 customers of Potomac Electric Power Co. without power in six-degree weather...
...Allen did not have enough problems, it was revealed last week that he had misrepresented some past business dealings. The day before Reagan took office last January, Allen sold his consulting firm, Potomac International Corp., to Peter Hannaford, a former Reagan aide. But in a financial disclosure report filed with the Office of Government Ethics last February, Allen wrote that he sold the firm three years earlier. He claimed last week that it was just a "dumb mistake." Yet by stating that he had sold the firm in 1978, he avoided having to reveal the worth of Potomac International...
...There are two Alexander Haigs operating from the Secretary of State's big office, with that magnificent view of the Potomac River Valley. One is the explosive soldier of opportunity, a two-dimensional television power-grubber who talks funny and scares children with wild words about nuclear explosions and White House guerrillas. The other is a veteran warrior for foreign policy moderation, fighting on several fronts for a reasoned and effective global diplomacy...