Word: crashing
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...motoring above it, rolling left, flipping over, circling in a Cuban Eight, then gliding effortlessly through the October wind. "Flying straight like that is very delicate," offers one nervous spectator. "He has the bare minimum amount of wind under his wings. If he gets it wrong, that plane will crash, straight down. You won't see it again...
...aerobatics. Meet George Messetler, 80, the diminutive, elegant "grandfather" of the Rockland County Radio Control Flyers. Each week Messetler and other like-minded aviators in his 130-member model-plane flying club meet on a field and fly mini-airplanes they have constructed. They console one another when they crash. They grill burgers, give one another unsolicited aviation advice, show off for their wives and, if the wind is right...
Some governors who have been elected to the Senate have found it a disappointing experience. One day you're a chief executive; the next you're a powerless freshman. But Mel Carnahan was hopeful. A few weeks before his death last week in a private-plane crash, Carnahan told TIME that he enjoyed serving in Missouri's statehouse and that he "revered" his late father, who served in Congress from 1945 to 1960. "I would like to go there and do my own version of what he did," Carnahan said...
...Democrats will be calling on the widow. Eager to impress on Missouri voters that a vote for a dead man - Missouri governor Mel Carnahan, who was killed last week in a plane crash - is not a wasted one, interim governor Roger Wilson will ask Carnahan's widow, Jean Carnahan, to stand as her late husband's replacement for a two-year Senate term. If he wins...
Those numbers only begin to address the carnage. The average NASDAQ stock is down 48%, more even than during the 1987 crash, reports Salomon Smith Barney. Thanks to relative strength in more conservative stocks, broader market measures haven't been as devastated. Still, the Standard & Poor's 500 hit a new low Thursday, bringing its decline to 13%, and the Dow, while still above its spring low, was off 14% from its high nine months...