Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monster hit," says Andrews...
...have been other tragic air accidents involving American athletes. In 1961, 18 figure-skating stars, bound for the world championships in Prague, were killed in the crash of a Sabena jet near Brussels. In 1970, 30 members of the Wichita State University football team died when their chartered jet hit a mountainside in Colorado. Seven years later, 14 University of Evansville basketball players, returning home from a game in Nashville, died when their DC-3 crashed on takeoff...
...result was that orders for new reactors, which hit a high of 41 in 1973, declined to two in 1978 and zero in 1979. Since the accident, five utility companies have dropped plans to build a total of nine nuclear plants. The cancellations hit hard at the reactor manufacturers. Westinghouse, which has long dominated the U.S. nuclear industry, has built 25 of the 72 nuclear plants licensed to operate in the country and has orders dating back a decade for 69 reactors, 24 of them to be built abroad. But other U.S. reactor manufacturers are faring badly. Babcock & Wilcox, which...
...bestseller, MGM bought the property and transformed it into big box office. In the decades A.T., film companies learned to acquire novels before publication-particularly if the author was a known quantity, like Irving Wallace or Jacqueline Susann. Publishers also learned to produce prose spin-offs-novelizations of hit movies. The current flood includes Alien, The Rose and Star Wars...
...villain." The Great Los Angeles Fire by Ned Stewart will be published by Simon & Schuster this fall; Columbia will make the film. Obst has the courage of his confections: his license plate reads TIE-IN. As for Guber: "The whole thing gives you the opportunity to turn a hit movie into a smash book and a smash book into a smash movie. It has a potential for widespread distribution and profit for that thing I call a 'bovie...