Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I flew into North Korea, I felt as if I had landed in another galaxy. It was not just the spotless, carless streets, the loudspeakers broadcasting propaganda at dawn, the faceless groups of people filing silently from Kim Il Sung Stadium to Kim Il Sung University to Kim Il Sung Higher Party School (all with badges of Kim Il Sung on their hearts); it was, even more, the spooky unreality of a country that was building a 105-story tourist hotel while allowing almost no tourists, and showing off an Olympic stadium for the Games that were never held...
...weeks ahead with the publication of the gripping book Hot Zone, about a deadly-virus crisis in Virginia in 1989 (see following stories). Sabia is almost certainly carried by rodents and is not contagious by casual contact (the afflicted scientist evidently got it from tiny bits of tissue that flew into his unprotected eyes or nose or both). The Yale lab, moreover, is classified as a level-3 biohazard facility, meaning, among other things, that it is kept at negative air pressure. Outside air can flow in through tiny cracks, but air flows out only via heavily filtered vents...
Airlines have begun to cater specifically to the itinerant bargain hunters. Between October and March, Northwest Airlines offered a "Shop Till You Drop" tour that flew Britons and Japanese to the Mall of America in Bloomington, ) Minnesota, a 4.2 million-sq.-ft. behemoth with 420 stores. On the plan for the Britons, single-minded consumers boarded a plane in London late Friday afternoon, got to Minneapolis Saturday morning, shopped all day and arrived back in London early Sunday. "We compared a dozen items -- perfumes, blue jeans, fancy stationery items like Montblanc pens -- bought at the Mall of America to what...
...team of 18 U.S. soldiers flew to a remote outpost in the Dominican Republic, under orders to monitor its border with Haiti for potential violations of a U.N. trade embargo against that country. The G.I.s are to join teams of 14 Canadians and 15 Argentines, the leading edge of a multinational force that senior U.S. officials are brandishing at Haiti's intransigent military junta. The move is the first serious attempt to enforce the embargo, which military sources say is violated daily. The most common contraband: gasoline -- 40,000 to 50,000 gallons of which flow across the 186-mile...
...make a list of all the things we agree on?" Later, when an angry Clinton blamed G.O.P. partisanship for sinking the crime bill, Dole declared that "playing the blame game won't get us anywhere" and faxed a letter of ostensible compromise to the President as he flew on Air Force One. Who is this statesman-like, conciliatory character in the body of Dole...