Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what struck Flight 826 was so-called clear-air turbulence, which occurs when there is scarcely a puff of cloud in a pilot's path. CAT can be caused by a lot of things, including a change in direction of the jet stream, a clash of opposing air masses or a swirl of wind rising off a mountain. Not only is the phenomenon invisible, both to the eye and to radar, but it can also be highly localized, lurking in a patch of sky as small as 1,000 ft. across. When CAT hits, says retired United Airlines captain Andy...
...lake of Lhamoi Lhatso, famous for its visions, and saw in its waters an image of a gold-roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. Other signs appeared. The embalmed body of the departed ruler seemed to move from pointing south to pointing toward the northeast. And auspicious cloud formations also appeared in the northeast. When a search party of monks arrived at the 20-family settlement of Takster, in the northeastern province of Amdo, its members were startled to find a gold-roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. They were even more taken aback when...
...running on a promise to renegotiate the stringent terms IMF bailout. He has since backed down, and the IMF says he is now on board. In an election that was one of the closest in the country's history, neither candidate could promise to dispel the IMF's storm cloud. At least Kim could tell voters he had done nothing to bring it over their heads...
...finest performances, though, is arguably not comic at all: Katisha, the ferocious would-be bride of Nanki-Poo, is played with both delicious villainy and a surprisingly subtle range of emotions by Tuesday Rupp. Bloodthirsty and terrified of her own encroaching old age, Katisha first appears in a cloud of smoke and an attitude that brings to mind Cruella de Ville. But, playing Gilbert and Sullivan's somewhat enigmatic character to the hilt, Rupp injects a disturbing and note of tragedy into the entire latter half of the play; in the complex weave of The Mikado, this cast of darkness...
...Before calling for an appointment, Reno needs more than what she calls "the great blob": the cloud of apparent improprieties over the '96 Clinton Gore re-election drive which, though bearing the odor of scandal, lacks solid evidence of any one criminal...