Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Rudenstine returned to Boston, a welcoming party of about 40 union members greeted him at the airport, playing "Hail to the Chief" on kazoos...
...beating hasn't stopped. Last December the Department of Energy announced the closure of the EG&G Mound Applied Technologies nuclear-weapons facility in Miamisburg (pop. 18,000), which employs 1,600 and pumps millions into the community. In January USAir closed most of its hub at Dayton International Airport. Heavy dependence on the auto industry gives residents the jitters: with eight plants employing about 20,000 workers, Montgomery County has the largest concentration of domestic GM jobs outside Michigan...
...years. When it functions like an insurance agency, doling out grants up to $11,500 for hard- up families, it works marvels. But at the moment of crisis, the agency sometimes lacks even common sense. A relocation-assistance center for migrant workers, for instance, was first based at Miami airport, miles from the poor workers down in Homestead. FEMA's temporary relief centers along the roadways of south Dade are labeled simply DAC: nothing else, no clue to the befuddled homeowner that these are disaster assistance centers...
...Building 11, the dingy former headquarters of Eastern Airlines at Miami International Airport, an alphabet soup of federal and state agencies went to work coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. EOC on Floor 2, FEMA on 3, JTF on 4. CAP, COE, DNR, DER, SBA, GSA, even the ubiquitous IRS. In the hallways, Army Rangers in combat camouflage crossed paths with Army engineers in red shirts, sleepy-eyed state emergency officials in rumpled clothes and even Marilyn Quayle in Bermuda shorts and a ponytail...
TIME Cairo correspondent Bill Dowell faced comparable difficulties when he had to travel to Liberia to co-report our cover story. With Monrovia's main airport still under rebel control following the bloody civil war that ousted President Samuel Doe, Dowell flew in on a tiny Cessna that landed on a , makeshift airstrip. Nearby lay the charred remains of a Russian-built transport plane that had failed to make such a landing a few days earlier. Dowell also visited Francophone Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mali. Michaels, meanwhile, fanned out as far afield as Zambia, Zaire, Burkina Fasso, Nigeria, Benin...