Word: riding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jessica Dubroff's wings may have been frosted with ice, and she had no joy of flight on her last ride. She took off in a cold rain and died when her single-engine Cessna 177B nose-dived onto the black tar of a suburban roadway. But her senseless death last week could also be attributed to a modern kind of hubris. For Jessica was urged on by overzealous parents, by a media drawn to a natural human-interest story and by a willfully blind Federal Aviation Administration, which permitted a 4-ft. 2-in., 55-lb. seven-year...
...suddenly disappeared from the radar screens in the Dubrovnik control tower. It was more than four hours before the truth emerged: the aircraft had slammed into a rocky hilltop nearly two miles from the airport. With the exception of a fatally injured flight attendant who died on the helicopter ride to a nearby hospital, every passenger was dead by the time Croatian rescue teams reached the site of the crash...
...will eventually lead Europeans toward the American model. They will take it slow: along the way they'll witness more strikes, as in France last December; governments thrown out by voters, as in Sweden; and showdowns between unions and employers, as in Germany now. The politicians could make the ride easier on themselves if they'd start telling people that the destination might not be so horrible after all. --With reporting by Greg Burke/Rome and Thomas Sancton/Paris
...YEARS AGO, I ARRIVED IN MONTANA TO REPORT ON THE end of the world, and I'm still here. Given all the recent goings-on, the story I came to cover seems almost cliched: a heavily armed survivalist cult, the Church Universal and Triumphant, was preparing to ride out Armageddon in the mountains north of Yellowstone Park. The roads were clogged with supply-filled U-Haul vans. In Livingston, the town where I now live, the store shelves had been cleared of staples from tampons to dried beans to rifle shells. The locals were scared, and there was talk...
...impact of the two Michaels--Me and Mo, as some Hollywood wags have begun calling them--will be even more apparent when ABC picks its fall schedule later this spring. Those trips to Space Mountain will get old fast, but Mr. Eisner's (and Mr. Ovitz's) Wild Ride is just beginning...