Word: cabinent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Environmental Enemy No. 1. As the dimensions of the catastrophe in Prince William Sound came into focus, people had little trouble deciding where their sympathies lay: with the seabirds and otters suffering and dying in the oil-laden waters, not with the hard-drinking skipper who was in his cabin doing paperwork when his tanker plowed into Bligh Reef...
...Soviet naval officer and a band of co-conspirators lock the captain of their ship in his cabin, tie up the other officers and head for asylum in the West. Military authorities learn of the mutiny and set out in pursuit. Sound similar to The Hunt for Red October? No wonder. The incident, revealed last week in the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, turns out to have been the real-life basis for Tom Clancy's blockbuster, the film version of which, starring Sean Connery, is now playing across...
...that children under two be strapped into safety seats whenever they fly. In the past year two unsecured young children were killed in air crashes. Under present FAA rules, infant safety seats are not mandatory; some parents have reported that they were not allowed to bring them into the cabin...
Countless times you bounded up those stairs, flopped in a seat, while the Caroline rolled down a distant runway, headed for another city, another rally. Kennedy reigned in his swivel chair at the center of the cabin, barking at his campaign organizers, laughing at the pratfalls of the traveling press, sucking on Callard & Bowser butterscotch squares for his strained larynx, and showering the floor with the devoured pages of the day's newspapers. All the while a comely stewardess rubbed Frances Fox tonic into his luxurious shock of hair, a zealously tended political asset...
Bush came up with a new justification for his minimalist role last week. Angered by reports that he had made misleading and deceptive public statements, Bush strode into the press cabin on Air Force One en route to Colombia and announced that he would retaliate by holding fewer news conferences. "It's not good," Bush said peevishly about his usual availability to reporters. "It overdoes it. It's overexposure to the thing. So we've got a whole new ball game." Over the long run, a lack of credibility is much more damaging than a surfeit of attention...