Word: cabinent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most travelers eat airline food only because at 30,000 ft. they have few alternatives. But Japan Air Lines thinks its in-flight cuisine is so good that it can draw diners at ground level. In a novel promotion, JAL has opened its own restaurant, complete with a genuine cabin crew. Customers at the Osaka restaurant pay as much as $75 apiece to savor such in-flight specialties as flounder steamed in wine and red snapper stuffed with crayfish. To whet their appetite for travel, JAL has patrons enter a replica of a Boeing 767 cabin to watch...
...Pittsburgh native, Black, 28, had earned $400,000 for writing Lethal Weapon. He spent four months holed up in a cabin to write Boy Scout, an action mystery in which a private eye and a retired football player team up to solve a murder. Black wrote the script "on spec," meaning on a speculative basis with no studio commission, a status that entitled him to shop it around for the highest price. The bidding started with an offer of $850,000 from 20th Century Fox and escalated until Carolco Pictures reached a top bid of $2.25 million. But the screenwriter...
...climax of the parade, the residents of Tikrit wheeled out a simple cabin, and people dressed in the robes of ancient Babylon and Assyria prostrated themselves before it. When the cabin split open to reveal a palm tree from which 53 white doves were released, Saddam appeared to a wave of applause...
Shortly before midnight on April 7, a chartered Boeing 707 took off from the Dominican Republic, bound for Montreal. Inside the cabin rode 47 Chinese, all of them sitting comfortably in the first-class section. The cockpit crew thought they were VIPs, but as soon as the plane was in the air, the passengers began shredding the fake British Hong Kong passports that had got them this far and took turns flushing the illegal documents down the toilets. Upon arrival, the passengers -- mainland Chinese citizens who had paid as much as $20,000 each for their journey to freedom -- pleaded...
...plane landed, the pilot announced the time--2.15 p.m. Nine minutes before our scheduled arrival time. A collective groan spread through the cabin. Then the plane began to taxi. And taxi. And it kept on taxiing. We did a tour of the entire LaGuardia runway system. Finally, we arrived at the gate...