Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skies off the New Jersey and Maryland coasts, F-16 jet fighters came so close to passenger-carrying planes that the Air Force grounded all such flights along the East coast until procedures are checked to ensure public safety. Both incidents involved the Air National Guard's part-time military pilots whose missions include coastal defense...
...Friday, about 15 miles off the Maryland coast, an American Eagle turboprop pilot flying at 19,000 ft. was surprised to find himself sandwiched by four F-16s--three above him and one below--after he was told all four would be passing above him. With one F-16 running low on fuel, the four jets screamed by within 1,500 ft. of the turboprop, which was bound for J.F.K. from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
Home at last, home at last. The Harvard wrestlers are home at last. They have been to Nevada, Michigan and Pennsylvania. They have traveled the country coast to coast, and finally they are home...
Individuals, as they have always been, are the key to a harmonious future. Millions of individuals working from coast to coast to reach out, to communicate, to understand and to support will do far more for race relations than any quota or government program ever did. Individuals working on public service projects, engaging their fellow citizens in initially uncomfortable conversations and discussions, working with community leaders in other communities can begin to rebuild the inter-racial and multicultural foundation that this country will need in the 21st century. Indeed, we cannot solve the problems of racial tension if we continue...
...bedfellows. Case in point: Former mortal enemies Iraq and Iran, now working together to smuggle oil out of Iraq in defiance of the UN ban. The U.S. Navy has been monitoring a fleet of Iraqi ships that they believe are loaded with diesel fuel that travel down Iran's coast and use the country's territorial waters, where U.S. ships can not go, as cover before offloading at ports in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Twice in recent weeks, U.S. Navy warships have been threatened in international waters while intercepting illegal oil shipments from Iraq, and each incident...