Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father Phuong Ho, who flew in from California, cried loudly as he touched the coffin. Also among the mourners was Thao Nguyen...
...clampdown in the 1980s on their shipping routes through Panama and the Caribbean, the Cali bosses began contracting their transportation to Mexican contrabandista families, bootleggers who for generations have specialized in running goods -- whiskey, heroin, blue jeans -- into the U.S. In the system that eventually evolved, the Colombians flew planeloads of cocaine from Colombia into Mexico, then paid the Mexicans to move the goods across the border...
Perhaps hoping to move her image Audrey Hepburn-ward, Julia Roberts flew to Haiti last week to act as unicef's goodwill ambassador to the newly democratic but still impoverished country. The actress visited orphanages, vaccination programs and schools. But while delighting the people of Haiti, she disappointed the folks at Disney by taking a pass on its script for the Pretty Woman sequel...
...First, EMI blundered by putting a painting of brown-robed Franciscan friars on the CD's cover instead of black-robed Benedictine monks-the ecclesiastical equivalent of putting a Yale man on the cover of the Harvard yearbook. Then, as Chant's sales took off, an overeager EMI executive flew to Silos to talk to the monks about a follow-up album. Suspicious of the machinery of stardom--and the private helicopter whirring overhead--the monks greeted the exec through a peephole in the monastery's front door and told him to hit the road. "That made them very cross...
...proper investigation, I received a call from Switzerland telling me that I had the job. Despite the fact that I'd already joined the union of movie theater employees and was well on my way to winning employee of the month, I said goodbye to Gina and Whoopi and flew to Geneva. And while my two weeks at the cinema may not have been Paradiso, it wan't a half-bad Purgatorio, with real butter...