Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peers as dull corporate drones. Women, meanwhile, with comparatively freer schedules, have more time to cultivate their interests. As a result, there is a growing perception gap between the sexes. A much discussed phenomenon known as Narita divorce illustrates the problem: upon arriving back home at Tokyo's Narita Airport, fresh from their honeymoons, many worldly young women, shocked to have discovered the narrow-mindedness and dependency of their new bridegrooms, promptly dump them...
...will seat some 360 passengers and will have an extra-wide wingspan to give it a 4,800-mile range. The new jet will have optional fold-up wing tips that will enable it to park at existing airport gates...
...being grounded by flight delays with kids in tow can be f-u-n. At least at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, which has joined hands with the Children's Museum of Denver to launch the first children's museum in an airport...
After Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi diplomats and their families stationed in the U.S. began to notice that someone was watching them. Following a State Department order that Iraq recall 36 diplomats and their families, one carload of evicted Iraqis got lost on the way to the airport; up popped the FBI agents who had been shadowing them to provide helpful directions. Later, while waiting for their flight, some restive and hungry Iraqi children were treated to pizza by attentive G-men. These were not spontaneous acts of kindness. The FBI was sending a message to Saddam that...
Seraw, who worked as an Avis airport shuttle-bus driver, lived near an apartment where the White Pride group were drinking one night, and was attacked with two friends while returning from a party. A skinhead named Kenneth Mieske came up behind Seraw with a baseball bat and struck his head "as hard as you'd hit a center field ball," Dees told the jury last week. Then Mieske stood over the fallen Seraw and hit him repeatedly, splitting open his skull...