The official news agency Xinhua report blaming passenger Zhang Pilin, a former member of the secret police for setting fire to the plane in a suicide attack, is dismissed by Jiang as being a scapegoat.

Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

A new bill had been passed under Harding that designated the Government, rather than the President, as the tab-lifter for official meals.

Commerce Secretary Hodges seems to have been cast in the role of pacemaker for official Washington's economic forecasters.

The White House itself has taken steps to remove a former Batista official, Col. Mariano Faget, from his preposterous position as interrogator of Cuban refugees for the Immigration Service.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

The prevailing official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold.

the administration's official budget review, which estimates a 6.9 billion dollar deficit for the current fiscal year, isn't making anyone happy.

If any official operation abroad begins to go wrong, we shall look to the ambassador to find out why and to get suggestions for remedial action.

He was the official procurer for King Farouk, now in exile.

Brooklyn College is distinctive for not having an official drinking place.

The Board of County Commissioners, the Sanitary Commission, the Planning and Zoning Board and other county official bodies use recording machines for all public business in order to prevent law suits and other misunderstandings about what actually happened at their meetings.

* Atlas, official name for the Airbus A400M transport aircraft

The standardized form of Austrian German for official texts and schools is defined by the Austrian Dictionary (), published under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

For many years, Austria had a special form of the language for official government documents.

For most speakers ( even native speakers ), this form of the language is generally difficult to understand, as it contains many highly specialised terms for diplomatic, internal, official, and military matters.

Seaborg leaked the synthesis of the elements 95 and 96 on the U. S. radio show for children, the Quiz Kids, five days before the official presentation at an American Chemical Society meeting on 11 November 1945, when one of the listeners asked whether any new transuranium element beside plutonium and neptunium had been discovered during the war.

The use of a single official language, which modern scholarship has dubbed Official Aramaic or Imperial Aramaic, can be assumed to have greatly contributed to the astonishing success of the Achaemenids in holding their far-flung empire together for as long as they did.

* Tax Day, the official deadline for filing an individual tax return ( or requesting an extension ).

MCC ’ s wish for it to be seen by as wide a range of cricket enthusiasts as possible has led to its being mistaken for an official trophy.

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

He reformed the Roman system of taxation, developed networks of roads with an official courier system, established a standing army, established the Praetorian Guard, created official police and fire-fighting services for Rome, and rebuilt much of the City during his reign.

* 1987 – History's worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4, 000 people ( 1, 749 official ).

* Aggravating circumstances-three to 15 years: a ) by two or more persons together b ) by a person in possession of a gun or a narcotic substance c ) by a masked or disguised person d ) against a person who cannot defend his or herself e ) in a public place f ) in a public transportation vehicle g ) during the night h ) during a natural disaster i ) through burglary, or by using an original or copied key j ) stealing national treasures k ) stealing official identity papers with the intention to make use of them l ) stealing official identity badges with the intention to make use of them

* December 20 – In history's worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4, 000 people ( 1, 749 official ).

The official inquiry into the disaster, the Taylor Report in 1990, concluded that " the main reason for the disaster was the failure of police control.

Her last big-screen appearance came in the spectacular disaster film The Towering Inferno ( 1974 ), in which she danced with Fred Astaire before a fire threatened partygoers in a new San Francisco skyscraper who were celebrating its official opening as tallest building in the world.

The official analysis of the failure suggested that a wind pressure of over 30 pounds per square foot were needed to cause toppling of the structure, but he examined smaller structures in the vicinity of the bridge and concluded that the pressure could not have exceeded 15 pounds per square foot on the night of the disaster.

This avoids potentially negative situations such as three separate agencies all starting an official rest centre for victims of a disaster.

Some official missions the constables have officially performed include port security after 9-11, disaster relief, and Alaska Pipeline patrols.

She is survived by her husband, fellow NASA flight surgeon Dr. Jonathan Clark ( who was part of an official NASA panel that prepared the final 400-page report about the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ), and son Iain.

Magen David Adom ( MDA ) ( Red Star of David or, translated literally, Red Shield of David ) is Israel's only official emergency medical, disaster, ambulance service.

Most serious was the disaster in Iraq in 1971-2, when according to official figures 459 died.

* Natural disaster: French official first report from the Institut de Veille Sanitaire was presented to Jean-François Mattei ( Health Minister ).

Because of the nature of the disaster, and the slow response of authorities to recognize it, no official " death toll " has been determined.

The official cause of Sultana disaster was determined to be mismanagement of water levels in the boiler, exacerbated by " careening ".

Since the 1980s there has been greater official Chinese recognition of the importance of policy mistakes in causing the disaster, claiming that the disaster was 30 % due to natural causes and 70 % by mismanagement.

In contrast to the official government efforts to deal with the disaster, which were considered uncoordinated and haphazard, Tzu-Chi was widely praised for its efforts.

The official report into the disaster made 31 safety recommendations.

The relationship of media and policymakers is symbiotic and is controlled by shared culture of unofficial set of ground rules as journalists need access to official information and policymakers need media coverage ; nevertheless the needs of journalists and policymakers are often incompatible because of their different orientation in time as powerful sources are at their best in routine situations and react more slowly when crisis or disaster occur.

The first official disaster the organization responded to was the Michigan " Thumb Fire " of 1881.

* Chernobyl disaster, 1986-The official Soviet count of 31 deaths has been disputed.

The first official investigation into the disaster commenced in Carlisle on 25 May and was conducted by Colonel E Druitt RE of the Railway Inspectorate on behalf of the Board of Trade.