Word: craning
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Congress may not be able to solve problems like the federal deficit, but at least 38 of its members are determined to do something about a truly crucial issue: parking at Washington's National Airport. In a letter co-signed by 37 of his bipartisan friends, Illinois Republican Philip Crane asked Federal Aviation Administration Chief Donald Engen to bar Supreme Court Justices and members of the diplomatic corps from using a choice 88-space lot near the terminal gates...
...Congressional Parking Lot," as Crane dubbed it, is reserved free for high-ranking officials. (Ordinary citizens pay as much as $15 a day for more distant locations.) Arguing that Congressmen must be available on short notice for last-minute votes, Crane asserted that "Supreme Court Justices and ambassadors are traditionally driven to the airport" and that their aides should not hog the spaces, forcing Senators and Representatives to scrounge for other spots. Engen, who doubtless is studying the problem carefully, has yet to reply. Perhaps the next item on Crane's agenda: box seats at Redskins games...
...capital. They would arrive in Mexico City in a C-5A transport also carrying five large helicopters equipped to fight fires. An accompanying team of 25 civilian technicians would include experts on disasters and on using heavy mining equipment. One request the Mexicans did make was for giant crane helicopters to help clear some of the ruins, but U.S. experts said they would not operate properly at the city's 7,350-ft. altitude...
Although the expedition reported shortly after the discovery that the Titanic was in "museum shape," the videotape shows that the stern is missing, and the Angus' still photos show wreckage, including a giant crane and a ship's telegraph, littering the ocean floor. Why the stern disintegrated remains a mystery. Ballard pointed out that there is no evidence on the ocean floor of any great impact, which suggests that the huge ship settled gently to the bottom. Only two of the Titanic's four mighty smokestacks remain in place; the others collapsed, perhaps when the ship's boilers exploded...
Reading from the Cambridge Fire Department's report of the accident, Lieutenant Thomas Kotowski said a crane struck Baker on the back of the head. Johnson, however, said he was not aware of reports involving the crane and added that Baker might have slipped...