Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some carriers have already taken action. Northwest Airlines has permanently blacklisted three violent travelers from flying. Yet prosecuting air rage isn't easy; many countries have no jurisdiction over a passenger who arrives on a foreign airline. In the U.S., the Justice Department is working harder to convict defendants; last summer a man who threw hot coffee on a flight attendant and tried to open an emergency door was fined $10,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. This fall British Airways began handing out "warning cards" to anyone getting dangerously out of control. Some airlines include a pair...
...First Lady, to Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, Steven Spielberg and other famous names. Laura Christopher, 11, wrote Colorado Senator Wayne Allard, saying, "We would like to know if you could contact the United States Government and let them know what is going on, so they can take action and put a stop to slavery!" To Hillary Clinton the kids and their teacher wrote, "You once said that it takes a village to raise a child. Now we would like you to know that it takes the whole world to save the village that will raise that child." The Clintons failed...
...MICHAEL JORDAN As if in some far-fetched action film, Michael Jordan once again snagged victory at the last second. His sixth championship of the decade came over a favored Utah Jazz team. Who was putting his Vegas money against MJ? Smarter to bet he'd score 45 points to win Game 6 and another ring...
...magic number for Bill Clinton on this and other Democratic action Friday is 218 -- that represents a simple majority in the House. The White House figures he needs 10 to 15 more undeclared Republicans...
...other pending legal actions against Microsoft -- such as the so-called permatemp suit, a class action suit brought by a group of disgruntled temporary workers -- may have a greater chance of realizing concrete gains, one could also argue that the suit has had a galvanizing affect on the industry as a whole: Witness the dramatic AOL-Netscape deal, and the renewed interest in wacky, alternative computing strategies, such as the free operating system Linux and the so-called networked computer. However long the trial may drag on, in just nine weeks it has already changed the face of history...