Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bystander in this case. PAM STONE Calgary, Alberta What parents in their right mind would let a seven-year-old drive a car across the continent, never mind fly an airplane the same distance? This whole tragedy shocks and angers me. The reported weather conditions at the Cheyenne, Wyoming, airport were obviously unsuitable for Jessica's plane to take off. I obtained my pilot's license two years ago, when I was 17, and I know when and, more important, when not to go flying. In the aborted takeoff from Cheyenne, the most logical thing for the pilot...
While the blitz continued, Lebanon lived out a strange dichotomy. Reconstruction continued in the midst of destruction. Israeli missile ships shelled the coastal highway between Beirut and Tyre. Yet at the end of the hair-raising high-speed dash through explosions, motorists came upon giant Caterpillars smoothing the new airport runway...
...nine months they met secretly in airport conference rooms from Washington to New York City, imagining a mutual future that might never arrive. "We tried not to jump up and down or giggle," says an executive of the moment when they realized their infatuation would be made legit. "It took tremendous personal restraint...
...find use of credit cards over the Internet to have been safe so far. I do my business over "secure servers" but recognize that there are limitations to all security. I have locks on my house, but it's been burglarized. I live near an airport runway, and no planes have hit my neighborhood, but they could. Most of us automobile drivers know that in some small statistical sense, we could be killed or injured in a car accident, but we keep on driving anyway...
...close friend. Previous attempts at encounters had always seemed jinxed. In the summer of '63, my family and friends were booked for a high-level seminar with Leary and Richard Alpert at the International Foundation for Internal Freedom's paradise in Zihuatanejo. As we bustled through San Francisco Airport to our Mexicana flight, we saw the headline: DOPE DOCTORS ARRESTED AT MEXICO MANSION. So much for paradise...