Word: aerials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being delayed for two days by snow and bad weather, the nuclear exodus from Kazakhstan finally began late on the afternoon of Nov. 20, when the first of two C-5s ferrying the nuclear material lifted off. Their flights home were nonstop, made possible by extra pilots aboard and aerial refuelings over the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. "As soon as the wheels left the ground," said Navy Commander Paul Shaffer, the top military man on the mission, "everyone was cheering and clapping." More than 20 hours later, they landed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the cargo...
...helicopters over northern Iraq last April. The charges are not his first "official" recognition from the military. More than three years ago, during the Gulf War, May downed an Iraqi Hind helicopter in the same area and received a Distinguished Flying Cross for his "professional competence, aerial skill and devotion to duty...
...telegenic. Every successful American team sport is now made-for-TV (plenty of close-ups, replays and time-outs). Soccer isn't. The last-row aerial shots of the huge field make the action look like an infested picnic viewed from a helicopter...
...strikes on Pyongyang might prove trickier. North Korean facilities are heavily defended by antiaircraft guns and long-range SA-5 missiles, with many of those deeply dug into the ground. The most urgent job for aerial forces would be to blunt the North's offensive with antiarmor smart bombs and cluster bombs. Southern airfields have strengthened their defenses, and the arrival of Patriot missiles should help fend off lethal Scuds...
...from the Baby Boom. It features a deliberately rather plain font of "OK" against a white background with a narrow red border; a sloppily drawn oval-headed fellow looks out quizzically from in front of a wall and a little box of a house capped with an aerial. The rather casual shabbiness of "OK" is a shameless bit of pandering to the idea of Generation X; evidently we are so fed up with the kaleidescopic self-promotion and colorful hype of Pepsi and Coke that we are helplessly susceptible to the soft-pedal...