Word: craft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several days with the U.S. Senator in his home state, South Dakota. Never an enthusiastic flyer, she was dismayed one foggy night to learn that Daschle had booked them onto a tiny airplane. Even worse, he let her know with a big grin that he planned to pilot the craft himself. This week the tables are turned. Daschle is Clinton's point man on Capitol Hill, and Tumulty is TIME's congressional correspondent--steering us through a bumpy presidential campaign that will be waged, by and large, inside the Beltway...
...third plane escaped, and the pilot, Brothers cofounder Jose Basulto, claimed the Cubans began harassing the Skymasters as they were flying in international airspace, which begins 12 miles offshore. U.S. search craft spotted oil slicks some 20 miles off Cuba. A grim-faced President Clinton condemned "in the strongest possible terms'' what he described as "the shooting down in broad daylight of two American civilian airplanes by Cuban military aircraft." He directed U.S. Coast Guard units to conduct a continuing search-and-rescue operation and ordered U.S. military forces "to ensure that it is fully protected." Clinton also demanded that...
...Constitutional ideals have always been held aloft by the mast and spars of a concerned, active citizenry. This has been exemplified by the stout framework of a calling to public service, a concern for the public good and a charitable spirit of volunteerism. But no matter how seaworthy the craft, how adept the captain, or how steady the wind, without this structural integrity, even a great ship of state will eventually become paralyzed. Because today's concerned students are indeed stakeholders in the American Dream, they cannot afford to ignore the call topside--to stand their watch and serve their...
...There has never been a commitment to craft a University-wide policy concerning outside contracting, except in a very general way...providing a level playing field," Touborg said...
...computer did not create itself, nor did a single Frankenstein craft it in secrecy. Instead, the computer has been a collective effort over years. Deep Blue is a composite of many individuals, no single one of whom could hold the information or chess power it has. Perhaps this is a victory for society, demonstrating that the collective effort of a group of people is always stronger than the power of one person, however brilliant...