Word: tore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secured cargo door as the plane left Paris. The resulting pressure change buckled the cabin floor and broke the hydraulic tubes passing under it. All 346 occupants died. In a 1979 crash in Chicago, 279 were killed after an improperly installed wing engine on an American Airlines DC-10 tore away on takeoff, - ripping hydraulic lines and causing the pilot to lose control...
...Delaware Court of Chancery in Wilmington. They were anxiously awaiting the outcome of one of the most intensely watched corporate takeover fights in the 197-year history of the court. When clerks appeared at 10:30 with copies of Chancellor William Allen's 79-page ruling, the aggressive crowd tore the documents from the court officials' hands. Dialing their offices, moneymen shouted into their cellular phones, "The Time-Warner merger...
...First Amendment has never entertained a blush factor. Free artistic expression is broadly guaranteed. The question is whether the right of free expression carries along with it the privilege of federal subsidy. New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who tore up the Serrano catalog on the Senate floor, concedes the artist's "right to produce filth" but adds that "taxpayers' dollars should not be utilized to promote...
...NTSB issued a report finding that the FAA bore partial responsibility for last year's accident in which the top of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore apart in midair, killing a flight attendant. The FAA allegedly neglected to monitor carefully Aloha's maintenance procedures and failed to enforce closer inspections in the airline industry even after stress cracks had been found in older planes...
Even some liberals criticize Gdlyan. Last week Yegor Yakovlev, editor of the reform-minded Moscow News, tore into him for "the tragedy" of the Khint case. Others say Gdlyan and Ivanov are using public accusations to promote their political careers. If that's so, it appears to be working: Ivanov won his seat with 61% of the vote...