Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Atlanta, minority set-asides were far more than that. In 1993 she and her family started Rowe Concessions, a vending-machine-supply company that now has 30 employees. They got a big boost from the city of Atlanta with contracts to supply municipal buildings and the city-run airport with vending machines. The contracts end in 1999. "I don't want a handout. Just level the playing field," Rowe says. "People in charge of procurement are going to deal with people they know socially...
Swissair Flight 111, an MD-11 jumbo jet built by McDonnell Douglas in 1991, left New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to Geneva, Switzerland, promptly at 8:18 p.m. E.T. Not quite an hour later, at 9:14, the Swiss pilot, Urs Zimmermann, radioed, "Pan! Pan! Pan!...We have smoke in the cockpit" to the control tower in Moncton in New Brunswick, Canada. (Pan is an international distress signal less urgent than Mayday.) The pilot requested diversion to Boston, but when told that Halifax, only 70 miles away, was nearer, he responded, "Prefer Halifax." When...
...Force's C-17 Globemaster was chosen last week to fly Keiko, the killer whale star of "Free Willy," back home because the rugged cargo plane is uniquely suited to land on the short runway at Iceland's Heimaey airport. It's not as well equipped, unfortunately, for one of its primary missions: dropping parachuting G.I.'s rapidly into the world's hot spots. It seems that in flight, the hulking 300-ton plane kicks up a lot of turbulence. Such swirling atmospheric eddies can entangle soldiers in their parachute lines, collapse their chutes or hurl airborne paratroopers dangerously into...
...want Washington to hear from my friends in Eastie who have spent decades dealing with near-deafening noise from Logan Airport. Let them see the inhalers of those children in Roxbury and Dorchester whose chance of getting asthma is five times greater than those living elsewhere in the state...
...video companies have started to market their products more aggressively. For big releases, there are screenings and premiere parties. VCA, one of the four big adult-film companies, has put promotional billboards along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, and Vivid has placed ads at the Burbank airport as well as along Sunset. Vivid's actresses also appear in ads for Fresh Jive clothing and Black Flys sunglasses...