Word: ata
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...Mistakes were made on many levels," says David Castelveter, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association (ATA), which represents 90% of commercial airlines in the United States. "But this happens a fraction of a fraction of the time." In 2006, more than 4.5 million flights in the United States departed within 15 minutes of leaving the gate, according to the DOT. Conversely, 224 flights sat on the tarmac for more than 4 hours...
Even the amateurs jockeyed for their swing at the Supreme Court piñata...
People saw Smith out of the world, in other words, the same way they saw her through it, by ogling her while judging. And she gave ample reason to judge--the stripping, the pills, the reality show, the sexcapades, the conveniently timed marriage to the about-to-burst pi�ata that was ailing octogenarian billionaire J. Howard Marshall II. She could be in the dictionary under the word tawdry. She became famous for appealing to our worst instincts and was ruined by indulging our worst appetites...
...DIED. Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, charismatic Queen of New Zealand's indigenous Maori, a royal position established in 1858 in response to Britain's colonization of the South Pacific archipelago; in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand. Though her post was ceremonial, Te Ata, the sixth Maori ruler, worked to raise the profile of Maori abroad, attending the coronations of foreign sovereigns and meeting with world leaders like President Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II and Nelson Mandela...
DIED. Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, regal and charismatic Queen of New Zealand's indigenous Maori, a royal position established in 1858 in response to Britain's colonization of the Southwest Pacific archipelago; in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand. Although her post was ceremonial, Te Ata, the sixth Maori ruler, worked to raise the profile of Maori abroad, attending the coronations of foreign sovereigns and meeting with world leaders like President Bill Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II and Nelson Mandela...