Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embassy's water truck. Driver Joseph Shamte, a trusted embassy employee, stopped at the first set of gates, where the guards began their routine check underneath the vehicle. Without warning, a massive explosion engulfed the truck and blew it 50 ft. over the fence, separating the water tank from the chassis and incinerating the cab and Shamte. Five security guards died instantly, along with four others. Missing, though, was Saidi Rogati, the "truck boy" who normally accompanied Shamte and who had worked for the embassy for 13 years. Investigators do not know yet if his is the lone unidentified body...
...first unambiguously beautiful bike design represented in this show was the 1915 Iver Johnson, with its arched frame and sculpted fuel tank (a feature that would become a near obsession with bike designers 75 years later). By the '20s and '30s, bike design was part of larger design fields. The 1923 BMW R32, with its clear, lean triangular geometry, is one of the most perfect expressions of Bauhaus sensibility ever devised. There were Art Deco machines too, with swooping exaggerated fenders, such as the early (1922) Megola Sport or the mighty, lumbering 1948 Indian Chief. The BMW and the Indian...
...down to the Louisiana bayou. It's a place where the temperature is so high, the men are often more comfortable walking around without their shirts on than with 'em; a place where the air is so humid, the women will dress in little more than cutoffs and a tank top whether they're sitting around the house or going off to work. As for the atmosphere--well, let's just say that for every one part oxygen, you'll find three or four parts sexual energy. Down here, it's a force that's as visible as the haze...
Even in a bull market, individual stocks can tank and leave small shareholders devastated. Recent examples include the staggering 84% decline at small-appliance maker Sunbeam and a 66% drop at franchise operator Cendant, where just last week chairman Walter Forbes resigned under pressure. Both are widely held stocks, and, predictably, both now face scores of lawsuits that allege accounting fraud. Ultimately, the cases against both will become class-action affairs and so serve all who owned the stocks before their meltdown. But even if the suits succeed, the overwhelming odds--and this is true in any suit over...
...feel like a World's Fair on pretty afternoons in late July. People dress well for the White House tour, keep their voices down because that is the President's House, but this is Our House. That was the whole idea. We come by the hundreds, thousands, in tank tops and flip-flops, to see where Webster debated and wars were declared and National Mushroom Month was inscribed onto the nation's calendar. Boy Scouts pose for pictures, senior citizens wear buttons and troll for a Congressman to pester, Pentecostal pilgrims deliver copies of the Ten Commandments and pray outside...