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• Authorities are conducting a battery of tests on the ill-fated Ethan Allen to try and determine why the boat capsized on Lake George.
• The anchor was raised some years ago near Boatstrand and has now been mounted on the pier with an appropriate plaque as a memorial to its ill-fated captain and crew.
• BT was carrying billions of pounds of debt from a number of ill-fated overseas ventures at the time, and was in dire need of treatment.
• The court in Palermo agreed with prosecutors that the chain of events that led to the crash began when a wrong part was installed in the ill-fated plane, a Franco-Italian ATR 72. Compare and contrast Captain Chesley Sullenberger and Captain Chafik Gharby
• Mildmay stood for a moment, as one in a dream, watching the submergence of the ill-fated _Mercury's_ jib-boom end and fore-topgallant mast-head The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure
• As Bulgakov, Jennings is reed-like, glistening with anxiety: the embodiment of febrility and ill-fated aspiration. Collaborators; Three Days in May; His Teeth – review
• This ill-fated attempt resulted in the death of several men under Pryor's command and forced the survivors to retreat downriver.
• Privatization broke up the state winery system first through ill-fated management/worker buyouts and then through state auctions of the assets.
• She was sent to England, where she foaled the Kingmambo filly, to be bred to the ill-fated Dubai Millennium.
• In July 1627 Buckingham embarked upon his ill-fated expedition, which still further increased Charles I's financial embarrassments.