Word: airings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...defense in the first three weeks of the season. In its first two games, Lehigh gave up an average of 269 rush yards. In their third game, against Princeton, the Mountain Hawks controlled the Tigers’ offense, allowing only 163 total yards and just 47 through the air...
...being on the deck of a glamorous ship; you can almost reach out and touch the statues that crown the roof of the Duomo. My favorite place for listening to classical music is the Sala Grande at the Conservatory, tel: (39-02) 7621 1012, which has a slightly decadent air, as if it was a private sitting room. Afterward, I might drop into Bar Jamaica, tel: (39-02) 876 723. Opened in 1921, it was renamed after Alfred Hitchcock's 1939 film, Jamaica Inn. The haunt of writers and artists such as Piero Manzoni and Allen Ginsberg...
Pity today's business travelers. They operate in an environment of painful budget constraints and calamitous conditions for air travel. But midlevel hotels like Hyatt Place and Hilton Garden Inn have responded by offering comfort, consumables and great value: complimentary cocktails, free wi-fi, better beds, 24-hour sundry shops and, of course, improved loyalty programs...
...empires dissolved into nation-states, these spectacles of power swapped their air of mysticism for a more tangible tone of aggression. The military parade entered the modern era with the crack Prussian army, famed for its lockstep discipline. Armies around the world copied the German kingdom's methods of mustering and marching, its salutes and drills. Some of the strict measures applied to troops marching in Beijing on Oct. 1 - like the precisely prescribed distance between an infantryman's nose and that of his colleagues on either side - can be traced to the diktats of Prussian tacticians...
...same pay as their male colleagues. In 1987, the Royal Australian Airforce saw the first two women complete their education toward becoming pilots, and by 1992 most positions became open to women with the exclusion of frontline roles. At the beginning of 2009, the category of ground-based air defense was opened to women. But despite these advances, Australian women still only occupy 13% of military positions. And today, they are lawfully excluded from roles in seven divisions of the army, these including navy clearance diver, the Special Air Services (SAS) and various positions on the ground that involve direct...