Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working under contract with the Air Force, have spent years flying small, piston-powered aircraft like the T-3. "If the engine quits, we know how to land the airplane and walk away from it," a civilian pilot at Hondo says. "The Air Force guys just know how to bail out when that happens." McPeak, a former F-15 pilot, suggests the fact that all three dead T-3 instructor pilots flew bulky cargo planes before coming to the academy might have contributed to the accidents. "Maybe if you'd had three fighter pilots in there instead of three...
...Grier's title character is a flight attendant running money from Mexico to California for her drug boss Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), who is variously inconvenienced by his lazily taunting girlfriend (Bridget Fonda), his low-IQ henchman (Robert De Niro), an eager fed (Michael Keaton) and an aging bail bondsman (Robert Forster), whose creased face is a road map of disappointment in the venality of humankind...
Jackie Brown could make her a true mainstream star. She plays an airline stewardess who teams up with a white bail bondsman to steal half a million dollars from a gunrunning black thug. The film starts with a long, loving shot of Grier as she glides down a walkway through an airport. "I hope this film does for Pam what working for Quentin has done for other people," says co-star Jackson, alluding to his own post-Tarantino success and John Travolta's as well...
...barely dry on the International Monetary Fund's deal to bail out South Korea's floundering financial system. But the facts seem to still be changing, says Money Daily. The original figure, a record-setting $55 billion, was revised up to $57 billion. Now, reports peg the amount at over $60 billion, including new commitments Friday from Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden...
Capano last week was charged with state murder one, which permits authorities to seek the death penalty. Looking disheveled and disoriented after his arrest, he was held without bail in a 7-ft. by 10-ft. cell set apart from the other inmates at Gander Hill prison, awaiting a preliminary hearing. "You can bet every dollar in your pocket and every hair on your head that he's going to plead not guilty," said his lawyer, Joseph Hurley Jr., adding, "Gerard Capano is trying to get out of 10 years...