Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suffered a damaged front axle and a flat tire while in hot pursuit of search committee members during a rain shower. The driver--who hoped the escapade would reveal the committee's meeting place--miscalculated the proper speed for a turn on a ramp at New York's LaGuardia Airport and the Newscar slammed into a curb. The reporters continued the chase on foot...
Analysts blame the slow economy for only a part of Atlantic City's dismal showing. Unlike Las Vegas, the New Jersey coastal town has no major airport or convention center and is not open 24 hours a day. Concludes gaming analyst David Leibowitz, with restraint: "Atlantic City can't outglitz Las Vegas...
...negotiations must have been successful: each side thought the other guy got the better of the deal. That was the reaction among industry officials last week when U.S. and British negotiators finally completed a new transatlantic airlines accord, settling a major dispute over access to London's Heathrow Airport and for the moment keeping poor Pan Am alive by the skin of its fuselage...
Whatever the significance of the war, most Americans, giddy with relief and pride and a still-permeating sense of unreality, savored the moment. The first soldiers to come home from the gulf started pouring off transports. A trooper arrived at J.F.K. airport and said, "We're proud of what we done. We know we done the right thing." At Hunter Army Airfield in southern Georgia, 104 troops of the 24th Infantry Division, still dressed in desert camouflage, climbed off the plane in the middle of the night to a raucous celebration in which military discipline instantly fell apart. Friends...
...welcomers was Carlos Melendrez, a Vietnam vet who noted the contrast between the welcome today and the one he got when he returned from his war: "The first thing I did at the airport was rush to the men's room and get rid of my uniform. I was ashamed. The guys and girls today can be proud to wear...