Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Connor flew to Washington on June 29 for a breakfast the next morning with Smith in a secret hotel hideaway. That same day she met with Reagan's senior staff, including the troika of Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver. On July 1 she was invited to the Oval Office by Reagan. The 10 a.m. meeting was unannounced and, like countless other private presidential meetings, went unnoticed by reporters. She moved quickly to break any tension in the talks by reminding the President that they had met a decade ago, when he was Governor of California...
...merger in U.S. corporate history. Du Pont, the largest U.S. producer of chemicals, had secretly offered to buy Conoco, the ninth biggest American oil company. After five hectic days of staff work, the deal seemed set. On Sunday night of the July Fourth weekend, Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson flew from his headquarters in Wilmington, Del., aboard a King Air twin-engine turboprop to Stamford, Conn., for a midnight meeting with Conoco Chairman Ralph Bailey in that company's boardroom rotunda. Just after 1 a.m. the two weary, rumpled chief executives settled final details, sealed the agreement with...
...result is traffic jams, a 24-hour institution. Driving to the hotel from the airport in the early afternoon, we hit bumper-to-bumper on the L.A. Freeway. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Perhaps I'd better explain that. I flew out to L.A. for the Fourth of July weekend to attend a wedding. Now, I have to admit, I am what people out West like to call an Eastern Bastard: I don't know how to ride a horse, I've never shot a ground squirrel, and I think Mount Washington is a big mountain...
...avoid attention-and perhaps attack-by keeping secret a meeting of its leaders last week at their headquarters in south Tehran. It did not succeed. As Beheshti addressed the gathering, a massive explosion ripped apart the entire building. The roof and walls collapsed. Bodies and parts of bodies flew through the air, then were buried under tons of rubble. The noise of the blast carried for miles...
Some diplomatic observers wondered about the timing of the arms-sale decision, which was made with seeming haste at a National Security Council meeting shortly before Haig flew off to Peking. At the moment, the Soviets are intensely concerned about liberalizing trends in Poland. A new U.S.China accord might well increase Moscow's sense of isolation and lead the Kremlin leaders to conclude that nothing would be lost by cracking down on the Poles. U.S. officials insist that the arms-sale offer was merely a natural step in improving relations with Peking. They contend that the U.S. has retained...