Word: airport
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National Transportation Safety Board spokesperson George Peterson said Denver had just bought the plane and had performed three practice touch-and-go landings at the Monterey Peninsula Airport. He then told the tower he would be flying for about an hour...
This bitter truth was brought home for Dartboard while heading to New York in honor of Rosh Hashannah, the first of two holidays focused on repentance. Our formerly Israeli cab driver had a lovely chat with us about attending religious services for the holiday. Once at Logan Airport, our cabbie informed us of a curious new tradition--charging the passenger for the cabbie's ride back alone to Cambridge. Dartboard had no time to quibble; we suffered our rip-off quietly...
...embarrassing enough when my parents, crying, holding baby pictures and stuffing a flowery note into my carry-on bag, dropped me off at Newark Airport eight years ago for my freshman year at Stanford. But Chelsea Clinton's parents showed up at her Stanford dorm last Friday night not only mushy but also in a motorcade flanked by security guards and nearly 250 of their closest journalists. I would have died...
...warm-weather TV viewing. A Runyonesque character, he described with deadpan humor his difficulties in "getting rid of all those cookies"--distributing the $220,000 that [personal presidential attorney Herbert] Kalmbach channeled to him... [B]y prearrangement, he left packets of $100 bills in office-building lobbies or airport luggage lockers. He was obliged to make so many phone calls from public booths that he finally took to wearing a bus driver's coin changer... At first, committee members treated Ulasewicz as a welcome bit of comic relief. "Who thought you up?'' asked Tennessee Senator Howard Baker...
...They might well have agreed quietly to not actually proceed with building settlements, because it would be very difficult for the Palestinians to agree to even these interim talks if Israel was building settlements.? Israel has also agreed to discuss other issues, such as the building of a Palestinian airport, which could help restore the process leading to the tricky "final status" negotiations envisaged by the Oslo Peace Accords. So while the war of words is bound to continue, both sides are likely to act with the restraint necessary to keep the peace process on track...