Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coast in summer knows that the horizon can disappear completely in the haze," says Hannifin. One scenario: Kennedy began a normal turn, and then lost sight of the horizon. If he made the turn too tight, he could have lost lift. From there it would be straight down, and fast. "The poor guy wasn?t rated for an instrument flight," says Hannifin. "When the weather got beyond his capability and he could no longer see the horizon or the shoreline, it was his command responsibility to turn back." Too late...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataDays like this have been rare lately, though, and one gloomy Tuesday hardly means they?ll be coming thick and fast in the near future. "The economy is strong, the Fed won?t raise rates in August, and earnings, as a whole, have been excellent," says TIME senior economic correspondent Bernard Baumohl. "There?s no real reason to be concerned about the stock market...
Teen fiction may, in fact, be the first literary genre born of the Internet. Its fast-paced narratives draw upon the target demographic's kinship with MTV, which has a joint venture with Pocket Books, and with the Internet and kids' ease in processing information in unconventional formats. Smack is told by multiple narrators. Monster, the latest novel by veteran children's book author Walter Dean Myers, is recounted in the form of a screenplay. Louis Sachar's Holes, last year's Newbery and National Book Award winner about a boy erroneously sent to a juvenile detention center, shuttles between...
...Should that fast-flying Piper Saratoga have taken off at all? The witness of the moment is the last man to see the handsome scion alive: Kyle Bailey, another pilot who was planning a similar Friday evening jaunt. Bailey saw the haze and the fast-approaching dark and decided to stay on the ground. Kennedy was a green pilot, his license a year old, and was rated to fly visually, but not by instruments, which would be required in poor visibility. Perhaps John Jr. was thinking of his waiting family, of his cousin?s wedding, or the ride to Martha...
...years ago, the travel industry was about to cash in on a once-in-a-lifetime--make that once-in-a-millennium--event. The most hyped party in world history was fast approaching, and well-heeled globe-trotters were starting to look for special kicks with their New Year's 2000 champagne. As long as computer bugs didn't spoil the picnic, tour operators were bound to make a bundle...