Word: ah
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...Immediate, ah, trouble," radioed someone in Flight 123's cockpit, using English, the language of international aviation. "Request turn back to Haneda. Descend and maintain 220 [22,000 ft.]." Two minutes later, a member of the cockpit crew pushed a switch that sent an emergency code signal, "7700," flashing onto radar screens in Tokyo. Asked Tokyo control: "Confirm you are declared emergency. Is that right?" Flight 123: "Yes. Affirmative...
...some experts to call the mishaps a statistical aberration. Concludes John Enders, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a Virginia research and consulting group: "It's a kind of fluke, a confluence of a lot of things. There isn't any single thing one can point to and say, 'Ah yes, here's a new trend...
...best moments in college. The Fishbowl was the site of many of the theatrical productions in which Wiprud took part, both on and backstage. His roles ranged from the romantic lead in “Ten Little Indians” to the father in “Ah, Wilderness!” As for his directorial debut, Wiprud took the reins of “Murder in the Cathedral...
...Ah, the blistering real estate market, where dreams of big bucks come wrapped in aluminum siding, and you can get a three-bedroom ranch house with your hair extensions and a mortgage with your Grilled Stuft Burrito. The stock market may be dragging, but home prices are soaring, fueling a national obsession with real estate. Your house is now your piggy bank, ATM and 401(k). House gawking is a hobby; remodeling, both entertainment and an investment. Folks brag about having bought their home in the '90s the way they used to brag about having bought Microsoft...
...Ah, fun. Spend enough time talking to Wales-a confessed "pathological optimist"-and you'll believe his life has been one long laugh riot. Options and futures trading, which Wales did in Chicago for much of the 1990s, was "fun and cool." Quitting his job and moving to San Diego to start an Internet company? Delightful. Paying the mortgage purely from investments, even to this day? Fantastic. Spending two years trying to start an online encyclopedia called Nupedia yet getting no further than the first 12 articles? Not a lot of fun, actually...