Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week when authorities found the burned-out Pontiac Grand Prix that had been rented by Gina's mother Carole Sund, 42, for a holiday trip to Yosemite National Park with her daughter Julie, 15, and Silvina Pelosso, 16, a friend from Argentina. Opening the trunk of the charred wreck, hidden 100 yds. off a remote highway, law-enforcement officials discovered two bodies. By week's end, the victims had not yet been identified nor the cause of death released. There was some speculation that the blaze was so intense, a third body may have been completely incinerated...
...last week's deal agreed to reduce oil production by a whopping 3.1 million bbl. daily. When that happened, prices rose from $13 to more than $17 per bbl. Then flagrant quota busting, higher production from Iraq, warmer winter weather and lower demand for energy in Asia combined to wreck the price-fixing scheme, and oil crashed to just over...
...Best removers of car-wreck victims from vehicles...
...what navigators call the Screaming 50s because of the violence of the seas. But one day as she was studying weather maps below, the autopilot misread the wind. The boat veered sharply and rolled over so quickly that Autissier barely had time to seal the cabin. "Everything was a wreck," she later told TIME via satellite. "The compartment was full of oil and diesel, and water was everywhere." Still, she dared not risk abandoning ship for a raft on the open sea. "That boat was my only survival," she said. "If it went down, I went down...
...human Elvis he leaves no stone unturned, as the voluminous Notes, Bibliography and Acknowledgements attest. The result is a thorough account of the last 19 years of Elvis' life, in which the lithe, rebellious rocker who snarled "Hound Dog" while swiveling his hips turned into a pill-popping, sickly wreck. Although the reader may not exactly agree with the author's assessment that there is "no sadder story," the tale contained within Careless Love is certainly a tragedy, of "the price that is paid for dreams" and their fulfillment beyond any person's expectations. The only problem with this book...