Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amber and sent to the Smithsonian because, as Perot has demonstrated, presidential candidates no longer have to put their bodies on the line like this to get TV attention. First stop was the tiny San Joaquin Valley farm town of Kerman, a 40-minute motorcade ride from the Fresno airport. At a lunchtime rally in Oakland, Clinton lapsed into an inadvertent parody of his all-things-to-all-voters style when he declared, "I want you to know that I am a pro-growth, pro-business and pro-labor, pro-education, pro- health care, pro-environment, pro-family, pro-choice...
...continued pounding out copy on his beloved Royal manual. A blindingly fast typist, he would write one perfect paragraph per page and then rearrange the order of the pages until he got the story structure right. One of his few concessions to modern technology was his habit of wearing airport-style antinoise earphones when he was writing on deadline. It was during one such occasion in 1977, while he was writing a crash cover on Uganda's Idi Amin, that Bill's wife Genevieve Wilson-Smith, then a TIME reporter-researcher, gave birth to their daughter Caroline...
...selection as the host city will redound to its benefit. Government officials, eager to put the best face on the city for the 30,000 expected visitors, have repaved the roads, expanded the airport, built a new downtown expressway and preened the beachfront parks and promenades. Street children have been rounded up and placed in shelters, homeless migrants have been sent packing, and law enforcement has been beefed up. Officials have also started some ambitious environmental projects, chief among them the cleanup of Guanabara Bay. The project will cost $667 million, $450 million of it to be lent...
...fair, the council did enact a number of student services including a successful casino night, airport shuttles during every term break and a $5000 boost in spring grants to campus organizations...
...picked up at the airport. I'll walk in my house and check in downstairs and then my brother will carry my bags to my room (maybe I'll even tip him) and then I'll unpack...