Word: cargo
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...able to exercise that love by constantly cruising the Mediterranean coast of France in an 11-m cutter christened, in homage to Edouard Manet's infamous nude, the Olympia. (His first and much smaller boat he named, to show his artistic affiliations, the Manet-Zola-Wagner, a heavy cargo for a mere day sailer to carry.) He "discovered" St.-Tropez long before tourism did, and built there a big rambling house, La Hune, which was his base and which still, happily, belongs to his descendants...
Afghanistan was such a cozy home base for al-Qaeda. The network enjoyed luxuries like its own air-shuttle service, using the national airline Ariana to ship terrorist cargo and personnel, including Osama bin Laden's bodyguards and their families, between Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf or East Africa. Sometimes al-Qaeda agents would even slip in and out of other countries disguised as Ariana flight attendants, according to aviation sources...
...PAYLOAD: Passenger ? 250 lbs. Cargo...
...McDonnell Douglas DC-9 plunges into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami. All 110 on board perish. The fire, investigators learn, stemmed from improperly stored oxygen containers in cargo holds...
REMEDY Airlines since have installed smoke detectors and fire extinguishers in cargo holds. Any airline that contracts out for maintenance, as ValuJet did, now gets heightened oversight...