Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Disaster strikes a 10,105-ton floating dormitory
"There was a sharp, crackling sound followed by something that sounded like a muffled explosion." So recalled one of the numbed but fortunate few who were plucked from the icy North Sea last week after the worst oil rig disaster in the history of offshore drilling. Battered by towering 25...
The company was clearly headed for disaster in 1968, when Engineer "T" Wilson succeeded Lawyer William Allen as president. Allen had been renowned as an aerospace gambler because of his high-stake bets on the development of Boeing's full line of first-generation passenger jets, the 707, 727...
"How will we get out?" Mrs. DePalma asked. "We have to leave; there's been a disaster. We have to leave," she told her mother, who began to cry.
Worse still, with housing prices and mortgages now rapidly climbing out of reach for just about everyone, even the income from new mortgages is beginning to dry up. As a result, more and more thrifts are finding it all but impossible to pay the double-digit interest rates needed to...