Word: aboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...folly of assuming the worst: terrorism. Still, EgyptAir has a track record: in 1985 Palestinian terrorists hijacked one of its planes to Malta, resulting in 60 deaths, and just three weeks ago, a hijacker forced another plane to fly to Germany. To enhance security, two armed guards usually fly aboard EgyptAir flights. There were no such guards on Flight 990. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hastened to dismiss sabotage, but the Egyptian government's war against Islamic militants cannot be discounted...
...miles, dangling scores of thousands of baited hooks; enormous nets, nearly invisible in water. These indiscriminate killers drown everything, including birds and mammals, that takes the bait or blunders into the mesh. The unwanted--a quarter of everything caught--is discarded, left to rot or, sometimes, taken aboard to be ground into meal and fertilizer...
...Muslim Public Affairs Council, a U.S.-based nonprofit group, appears to be connecting dots of its own, meanwhile. The organization wrote to the Department of Defense Wednesday, urging full public disclosure over the revelation that 33 Egyptian military officers had been aboard Flight 990. The Pentagon has said Cairo asked Washington to withhold details about the Egyptians aboard the plane pending notification of next of kin, but Arab newspapers have alleged the personnel may have been training in the U.S. "The facts of this case are not as important as the impression that our government is attempting to conceal...
...Bradley's proposals were] an old-style approach that spends a lot of money but doesn't have any new ideas. [He proposes] the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. I was the author of that proposal. I wrote that, so I say, welcome aboard. That is something for which I have been the principal proponent for a long time...
...mystery of Payne Stewart's last flight may sound like "X-Files" material, but investigators believe a simple case of depressurization may have killed the star golfer and his five fellow travelers. The miracle is that the only victims in Monday?s tragedy were the six people aboard the Learjet that was carrying Stewart to a Texas tournament. "Once its crew were incapacitated, that plane was like an artillery shell crossing at least a dozen busy air routes at 400 or 500 miles an hour from Florida to the Dakotas," says TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin. "It was an extremely...