Word: flew
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Nastase is very conscious of the political changes in his homeland and wants to do as much as he can to help. The colorful former Wimbledon finalist flew to Romania last December to support his countrymen during their revolution for democratic change...
...hell is going on in there?" He has been wearing that expression quite a bit lately, for the man is Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, 65, and he has been weathering a storm of his own for the past few months. Even the elegant corporate jet on which he flew last week was symbolic of the crisis. A week earlier Iacocca had agreed to sell Gulfstream Aerospace, a firm he bought in 1985, to raise $825 million for his suddenly embattled company...
Japanese investigators have traced 42,000 of the fake coins to Paul Davis, 38, a well-respected British dealer. Davis voluntarily flew to Tokyo to try to sort things out. He has reportedly told police that he believed the coins were genuine when he bought them from a Zurich dealer, who claimed to be handling them for an undisclosed Middle Eastern government...
...much going on in Moscow and in the Germanys last week, it was tempting to prejudge the meeting between the foreign ministers of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. as a matter of minor consequence. The Soviets seemed so distracted -- understandably so -- that even as Secretary of State James Baker flew into Moscow to prepare for the June superpower summit, he was uncertain whether his schedule would hold up. His engagement with Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze had already been rebooked twice. Then an apologetic Shevardnadze was forced to push their first appointment back an hour and had to duck...
...Minister Yuli Vorontsov told Israel's consular representative, "We oppose any use of citizens leaving the Soviet Union to push Palestinians off land belonging to them." Israel's actions, he said, "are likely to cause serious harm to peace in the Middle East." Another Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennadi Tarasov, flew to Tunis to reiterate those views to the Palestine Liberation Organization...