Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that point there wasn't much Albright could do, other than hope her investments would pay off. She had succeeded in winning over some crucial allies. When Hillary Clinton attended the U.N.'s women's conference in Beijing in September 1995, Albright spent the day with her. Albright "flew in, made a cameo appearance and then left," says a high-level participant. "I've known her for years, but it was the first time I was consciously aware of what a public persona she was." Albright also played tour guide when the First Lady visited Prague last July. "She advises...
...Wednesday afternoon, about 70 miles east of Atlantic City, a pair of F-16s buzzed a Nations Air 727 at 28,000 ft. as it flew from Puerto Rico to New York City's J.F.K. airport. Although the airliner's pilot did not see either F-16 (he learned of their stealthy approach via the blaring alarm of his onboard collision-avoidance system), one of the jets (flown by a male pilot) apparently hugged the airliner's tail for two minutes, while his female partner loitered farther away. Among the 84 people onboard, two flight attendants and a passenger were...
...mere two minutes into the game, junior forward Ethan Philpott set the tone when he drove a Cornell player hard into the boards. Tempers flared, play stopped and bodies flew. Forty seconds later, junior Geordie Hyland, Cornell senior Jason Kendall and referee Jeff Fulton were still struggling on the ice while the Big Red fans cheered...
...victims of the Holocaust. Heavily influenced by the totalitarian oppression he witnessed, he chose to celebrate the freedom of the United States in his latest work. Prior to "Larry Flynt," Forman has enjoyed a prolific directing career and has twice received the Oscar for best director: first for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and again for "Amadeus...
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has taken pains to respond to sentiments like this. Last month Interior officials flew to Utah to begin consulting with the Governor and other officials on how to protect both the monument and the local economy. Such joint planning has rarely been tried before in land-use disputes, and Babbitt has high hopes for it. "This is a brand-new model," he says. "We want to live together out there...