Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Though federal investigators will probe every angle, Shannon reports there is more focus on the possibility of human error in the air rather than on the ground, where the Guam airport control tower is staffed by private contractors instead of government employees. Shannon says that's not a big issue, because such arrangements have existed for decades at light-traffic airports...
...nine weeks of Navy basic training begin on a luxury bus that takes recruits from O'Hare airport to the Navy's lone boot camp, Great Lakes Recruit Training Command, just north of Chicago. Onboard they watch an 18-min. orientation video with a rock-music soundtrack in which recent boot-camp grads tell the new arrivals that "physically, anybody can get through boot camp," and that it's O.K. to cry. Recruits get a "Blue Card," which helps them deal with stress. The card instructs a recruit to hand it over to a Navy trainer...
NEWARK, N.J.: Newark International Airport was closed for several hours this morning after a Federal Express cargo jet crashed as it was coming in for a landing. Eyewitnesses said the plane slammed into the runway as it descended and then flipped onto its back, sending flames spewing from the fuselage as it skidded across the tarmac. Miraculously, the plane's two crew members and three passengers survived, scrambling out a side cockpit window as flames quickly enveloped the aircraft. All five people were taken to a nearby hospital, treated and then released, a company spokesman said...
When I enter Boston's Logan airport and emerge in Boise's Beeson airport, the differences usually strike me first. The air is clean, the men all open doors for me and everyone walks just a little bit slower. But some things exist to remind me that this is still the United States and that there's a lot tying us together...
...Bacharach and his long-time lyricist Hal David ever wrote. Indeed, despite the passion and intelligence of Tyner's playing, when we finally hear the notes that correspond to the words "Why do birds suddenly appear..." is it humanly possible not to think of sipping mai tais at an airport piano bar? Or of Karen Carpenter starving herself to death? Or of old-fashioned melody's last stand on the pop charts...