Word: twa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bites. Where was the cosmic fairness in this year's murder of Bill Cosby's son Ennis, a beloved young teacher? Did the June settlement by the states with the cigarette companies hit the bastards hard enough? What was happening in the never ending investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800? Where is the justice for the killer(s) of JonBenet Ramsey, whose case seems to stew forever? Where is the justice for Pol Pot, the most odious mass murderer since Hitler and Stalin, who was brought into public view on videotape in a Khmer Rouge show trial. There...
...Board revealed in hearings held in Baltimore last week, minuscule can mean sinister. Calmly, patiently, safety-board explosion expert Merritt Birky explained that a spark carrying one-quarter millijoule of energy was all that was necessary to ignite the contents of the 12,890-gal. central fuel tank of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 off Long Island--a tank that then exploded, destroying the plane and killing all 230 people aboard...
Remember the good old days when abbreviations did not have to spell out some silly word? Think N.A.A.C.P. or AT&T or TWA. Now, it seems, every new organization or product title is contorted to spell out some annoying acronym. Here are a few recent examples...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: He's the Bedouin Buffett. The Donald of the Desert. The Soros of the Sands. He's Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, and he's known for betting big ? and winning big ? on solid but out-of-favor companies like Apple and TWA. Tuesday, however, the Prince's office announced some more traditional plays as part of the Prince's effort to push into media and technology...
...Days the FBI spent investigating the TWA Flight 800 crash...