Word: flew
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...problem with catching Bird live is that the Garden is perpetually sold out. You might have a better chance of seeing the Celtics if you flew out to San Antonio or Seattle for a road game. It might be less expensive...
Foreign bargain hunters often pour enormous effort into their shopping. Michael Dornemann, a director of West Germany's Bertelsmann communications giant, flew to the U.S. more than 50 times over the past three years while deciding how his company should spend its $1 billion American shopping budget. Often taking the morning Concorde from Paris in order to put in a full day's work in the states, Dornemann visited more than 20 U.S. companies before choosing his recommended targets: Doubleday publishing and RCA records. The possibility of snagging both was considered so unlikely that he and his boss, Bertelsmann Head...
...Bullets flew again last week over the Persian Gulf along with bombs, rockets and, oddly, prospects for peace. One of the ironies of the seemingly endless Iran-Iraq war is that the chances for a settlement appear to improve whenever the gulf conflict threatens to fly out of control. That seemed to be the case as the week wore on: the so-called tanker war in the gulf was renewed with a vengeance, while simultaneously there was new activity on the diplomatic front. By week's end United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar was packing his bags...
...Cebu, 350 miles southeast of Manila, troops commanded by Brigadier General Edgardo Abenina flew the Philippine flag upside down at their garrisons as a sign of sympathy for the rebels. Civilian authorities were placed under house arrest. But after Ramos relieved Abenina of his command, the brigadier general peacefully submitted...
...bullets flew past Malacanang last week, the rudely awakened President may have reflected on the difficulty of that task, and of many others she faces. Months before Aquino took seriously to politics, she said, "If I were President, I don't think I could ever sleep with all the problems in my head." Now that she has the job, it is a wonder she gets any sleep...