Word: airport
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...DEAL GONE THROUGH, AIR TRAVELERS could have flown from St. Louis to Nairobi with a single check-in and minimal airport delays. But British Airways withdrew its plan to invest $750 million in struggling USAir after U.S. Transportation Secretary Andrew Card vowed to reject the arrangement. Card balked at the partnership, which would have plugged USAir flights into British Airways' globe-spanning route map, after Britain refused to give U.S. carriers expanded use of London's Heathrow Airport...
When Japanese police told the Americans that the buses would not leave for the airport until the items were returned, more than 80 CD players, pocket recorders, miniature televisions, and electric razors suddenly -- and anonymously -- were handed over to the police. The incident has profoundly embarrassed the historically black university and given rise to concerns that the students' behavior will further tarnish the negative opinion of blacks already held by many Japanese...
Under the blazing morning sun a hodgepodge of military vehicles falls into sloppy formation on the dunes near the Mogadishu airport. Somali children sneak through shell holes in a wall to beg for food and baksheesh. Marines shoot souvenir snapshots of each other as the convoy slowly takes shape...
...This year, one of Carey's first moves as boss was to install William Genoese, a Teamsters official with a dubious background, as the head of a Mob- controlled airport-workers local in New York City. Lacey vetoed Carey's selection, calling Genoese "unbelievably oblivious" to corruption and citing his lengthy pattern of nepotism and misuse of union funds. "If even a casual look had been taken at Genoese's background, you would have known that this was a terrible mistake," says Lacey. "And Mr. Carey knew that." Moreover, the Mafia apparently likes Genoese: earlier this year, a former Lucchese...
THEY OUGHT TO CHANGE THE COMPANY'S name to Phoenix. Orion Pictures has risen from the ashes of its bankruptcy to release a few good movies. The first is LOVE FIELD, a slim but affecting drama named for the Dallas airport where John F. Kennedy's plane landed on Nov. 22, 1963. Michelle Pfeiffer, glitzed up and dumbed down, is a restless housewife who vows to attend the President's funeral in Washington; Dennis Haysbert is the mysterious black man she tries to befriend. Director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, Heart Like a Wheel) has the gifts of finding verve...