Word: delta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lure business to depressed areas first championed by conservative former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. The urban zones -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses, while the rural zones -- Kentucky Highlands, Mid-Delta in Mississippi, and Texas' Rio Grande Valley -- should get $40 million apiece. In addition, Clinton unveiled second-tier recipients: Los Angeles, Cleveland and 90 smaller areas, which will get grants, but no tax breaks. Clinton said the move was a nod to the fashionable idea that communities should decide...
...elitism--the final clubs. Though exclusive and generally distasteful, at least these clubs could claim to be an indigenous Harvard phenomenon. Other students seeking a private space could help to explain the relatively recent advent of national fraternities and sororities. The appearance of women's Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma chapters in the last two years was accompanied by a chapter of Lambda Gamma Lambda, a predominantly Hispanic fraternity...
Midway between its icy source in Tibet and the fertile delta at its mouth in Shanghai, 3,900 miles to the east, China's Yangtze River hurtles through a series of sheer chasms known as the Three Gorges. Legend has it that the scenic channel was carved in stone by the goddess Yao Ji as a way of diverting the river around the petrified remains of a dozen dragons she had slain for harassing the peasants. Over the centuries painters and poets have idealized the canyons as a mist-shrouded wilderness. While that may have once been true, the region...
...Diego Padres finish with the worst record in baseball again? Ship 'em to the International League and call up the Richmond Braves. The Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks? The CBA is waiting, guys. The Cincinnati Bengals and the Ottawa Senators? Delta is ready when...
...evidence supporting the wake-vortex theory is thin. As Flight 427 approached the airport, it was following a Delta Airlines 727, a heavier Boeing plane that generates a slightly stronger wake. Flight 427 trailed the other jet by 4.1 nautical miles, well within the FAA regulation that requires two planes of such weights to maintain a separation of 3 nautical miles. If the 727 wake did jostle the 737 sufficiently to contribute to the latter's plunge, it would be a first. While 727s were the lead craft in seven of the 52 wake-vortex encounters documented by the NTSB...