Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...barbarism. And each time the West, led by the U.S., shows itself unwilling to intervene with force. Last week it happened again. While the Clinton Administration was preoccupied with its airdrops of food and medicine into eastern Bosnia, rebel Serbs mounted a furious artillery-and-tank offensive against the same Muslim enclaves the U.S. Air Force was trying to hit with parachuted supplies...
Kariya passed Byerly Hall with flying colors but Tomassoni couldn't sell the small-town star (Kariya hails from north of Van-couver, British Columbia) on the benefits of urban life. Apparently, Kariya thought Boston would distract him from his hockey, so he opted for the complete sensory-deprivation tank of Orono, Mc. But just think...
...conflicts spread, the losers might try to exact some sort of price, to attract attention to their cause." But it was by no means certain last week that the Trade Center bombing was an act of political terrorism. During the Gulf War, a bomb found on a chemical storage tank in Virginia instantly raised an alarm. The culprit turned out to be a businessman who hoped to make an insurance-fraud fire look like the work of Iraqis...
...says there's a cultural poverty in the inner city. I live in a Black neighborhood, and who's lazy? The people who get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and go down looking for cans, or some guy in Washington who sits in a think-tank all day talking about the underclass? So I wish he'd stick with literary criticism and leave social policy...
...just two crashes. GM trucks do not, of course, explode in half of all sideways collisions, or there wouldn't be many left on the road. So the consultants helped things along. As GM later demonstrated, the truck that did burn -- apparently because it had an ill-fitting gas-tank cap, made for a different truck -- ignited for only about 15 sec. But to ensure that its images were graphic, NBC used tightly edited shots in which the flames looked much worse...