Word: crashing
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...They have a right to protest, and I have a right to protest against them," Faulkner, 43, said last week in Camarillo, Calif., where she manages a medical office. Given George W. Bush's record on executions in Texas, protest groups were putting out the call to "Crash the Executioner's Ball," and thousands were expected to join in. Faulkner respects death-penalty foes. What she resents is that their poster boy is the man who murdered her husband. And so while they do their thing, she intends to hold up Daniel Faulkner's photograph as she reads...
...could NBC have missed this train? Didn't the runaway success of Millionaire alert everyone in the U.S. over the age of three that network TV was about to crash through yet another barrier of diminishing taste and expectations? Sassa explained this lapse of attention: "We were obsessed"--he might have said afflicted--"with having the highest quality shows and the highest quality audiences, and because of that we weren't as aggressive on [reality TV] as we could have been." In English: Frasier, Friends and Will & Grace were attracting the well-to-do young viewers advertisers cherish, and reality...
...residents of Mönchengladbach, some 24 kilometers west of Dusseldorf and home to 13 of the Concorde victims, are in shock. The six couples and one child who died in the crash were all part of a group of 20 friends who regularly went on holiday together. They had booked the $11,000 luxury trip at the local travel agency Clemens. "It's incomprehensible," says Albert Kuenzel, one of the agency's employees. "We are deeply moved. Many [of these people] were regular customers, most of them of retirement age." His colleague Christian Stattrop adds in a tired voice...
...After the crash, Air France asserted, perhaps prematurely, that the crash was due not to any wing problem, like sneaking cracks, but to an exploding engine. That makes it the fastest investigation on record. They have not grounded the fleet beyond a thorough maintenance check, which on these delicate birds, with their 30-year-old technology, will be expensive...
Sometimes you can see the crash coming before the train leaves the station. Not only was Diana Ross going on tour after years of ignoring her core audience. She was also going out with a Supremes reconstituted from Motown slurry, with the best seats priced at $500 a pair. Sure enough, the Supremes' Return to Love tour derailed last week after 14 dates, many played to half-empty houses. Ross released a statement claiming that tour promoter SFX had canceled the remaining shows, while SFX, which is reportedly paying Ross $20 million, begged to differ, claiming that only certain shows...