Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...January 1990 crash of an Avianca jet near Kennedy Airport was the sort of local disaster that gets TV news departments pumped up -- and often brings in Emmys. But the first station to arrive at the crash site in Cove Neck, L.I., was not one of the big boys from New York City. It was a crew from News 12, a 24-hour cable channel seen only on suburban Long Island. One of the channel's satellite trucks happened to be half a mile away when word of the crash came over the police scanner. The crew raced...
...training subsidies and other lures. Boasts Ed Bee, Oklahoma City's economic development director: "We have a done deal." Well, not quite. Colorado has assembled a package worth at least $427 million, including 30 years of tax breaks, in hopes of landing the UAL jewel for the new international airport Denver is building. Governor Roy Romer will call his state legislature into special session next month to approve the goodies. UAL is expected to announce its decision by midsummer...
Worse, distribution of whatever goods have come close to the Turkish frontier has been held up by some appalling snafus. Late in the week 21 planeloads of relief supplies had been delivered to the eastern Turkish town of Diyarbakir, but much of the material failed to get past the airport. Other supplies are rotting in the rain aboard trucks stuck on the dirt roads of southeastern Turkey...
...said yes, the two French creators told the impresario they had a new project: they wanted to update the Madama Butterfly story. This time their inspiration was not a 1,000-page Victor Hugo novel but a single news photograph of a Vietnamese mother and daughter parting at an airport. The mother had raised her child with one goal: to locate the girl's father, an American soldier who had returned to the U.S., then send the child off to join him in a life of opportunity in a land the mother would never see. The musical would tell...
...next morning, a Crimson reporter telephoned San Juan International Airport and was put through to the gate where Feldstein was about to board a flight to St. Thomas. The reporter could hear Feldstein being paged on the public address system, but there was no response. A few minutes later, a gate agent took the caller's name and phone number and then checked with a man who sounded like Feldstein. She then came back on the line to say that the gate was very busy and that she would make sure that the First Class flight attendant would...