Word: craft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Flight 427 were recovered today, and investigators hope the devices reveal more about the bizarre crash that claimed 132 lives. The jetliner en route from Chicago to Pittsburgh crashed at 7:15 P.M. yesterday. The Boeing 737 was approaching the airport to land when an explosion occurred and the craft disintegrated, according to witnesses. Another US Air flight crashed in Charlotte, N.C., last month, one of five fatal crashes the airline has experienced in the past half-decade. President Clinton offered condolences to the families of those aboard the flight...
...Russian cosmonaut successfully docked a food-laden Progress M-24 rocket with the orbital space station Mir. The risky move may have saved Russia's manned space program from extinction. If the manual attempt had failed, the three cosmonauts on board Mir would have had to abandon the craft and board an emergency re-entry vehicle. High jinks on the ground made their predicament far worse: underpaid ground-support technicians stole many of their edibles before takeoff, and the cosmonauts were subsisting on recycled wastewater and food two years past its expiration date. There were international cheers for the rescue...
...whether police were still patrolling. Before dawn on Sunday she and 10 others slipped away from a beach east of Havana. They were spotted by a Cuban coastal patrol boat 28 miles from the island, far beyond the coastal limits, but after circling their crudely built wooden craft, the soldiers let them proceed...
...formal debate on health-care reform dragged on, the Senate finally did something and voted on a number of minor amendments to majority leader George Mitchell's bill. Meanwhile, a fluid "mainstream" coalition of moderate Democrats and Republicans endured long negotiations to craft an alternative proposal that, while somewhat less inclusive, is thought by many to represent the Senate's best shot at passing a bill. The mainstream plan would cover about 92% of the population, would cut out many of the regulations in the Mitchell plan, and aims to lower the federal deficit. But Republicans, led by minority leader...
...rich-quick scheme," says Bob Sparks of the National Association of Professional Leagues, which oversees all but one of the leagues. The minors are on track to draw 32 million spectators this season, buoyed in part by the attendance explosion in Birmingham, Alabama, where Michael Jordan has mastered the craft of striking...