Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Claudia Poblete, a secretary in Miami, swore off online love after a correspondent from Indiana flew down for a visit and ended up chasing after her best friend. But her abstention was brief. Next month Poblete plans to meet her latest online suitor at--where else?--Disney World...
...Although it takes considerable chutzpah to keep NATO, Muslim, and Croat generals waiting in the rain, Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir did just that on Monday. When Tolimir did not show up for the meeting which was to mark the resumption of Serb contacts with NATO, the other parties flew out to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington to carry on sans Serbs. NATO commander Admiral Leighton Smith called Tolimir's absence "not very smart," saying the General's political superiors wanted him to be there. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had agreed in weekend meetings with U.S. envoy Richard...
Sophomore Rob Anagnoson flew across the pool in the 100 butterfly, touching in with his best time of the season...
...authorities did unravel one of his money-laundering schemes, which typifies their complexity. Cash earned in the U.S. was smuggled to Mexico and handed over to a Monterrey currency exchange. Couriers then flew or drove the funds back to the U.S. and deposited them in the exchange's bank account in McAllen, Texas. Then, with the help of two directors at the American Express Bank International in Beverly Hills, California, the money was wired to the Manhattan accounts of Cayman Islands holding companies, and from there to investments stretching from Texas to Switzerland. In this way, the real owners...
...Japanese walking tour stopped at Radcliffe Quadrangle on Tuesday and 86 visitors had their pictures taken with the Easter Island god. The Smithsonian flew in a curator, who videotaped and photographed the work for archival purposes. The BBC started work on a documentary. There was talk of a declaration of the "Eighth Wonder of the World...