Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Esprit de corps not withstanding, the Marine airmen involved in the Italian ski-lift accident last February have finally broken ranks: Capt. Chandler Seagraves has been granted immunity for his testimony about a videotape allegedly made during the fatal flight. But how did investigators scale the wall of silence that the four men had kept up for so long? Common sense...
MINNEAPOLIS: The Northwest Airlines pilots' strike just got ugly. With all flights canceled through Labor Day and daily losses topping $10 million a day, the airline laid off 27,500 assorted mechanics, flight attendants and customer service employees Wednesday. TIME business bureau chief William Saporito says the pilots helped save Northwest eight years ago when it almost went under -- and now they want their money back...
Steve Torres, an Arizona naturalist and the author of the book Mountain Lion Alert, has formulated some advice. Do not run from a lion--they recognize prey by flight. Yell and scream instead. Eye contact, too, establishes a threat to the cougar, or you may wave it away. Raise your arms to make yourself seem bigger than you actually are. If in a group, band together and pick up the children. If you are with pets, forget about them. Defend your children. And if the lion attacks, fight back, brandishing a threatening object--knife, branch, stick...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. has offered Muammar Ghaddafi nearly everything he asked for: The two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland, if handed over by Libya, would be tried in a third-party country -- the Netherlands -- and by Scottish judges. But the U.S. isn't expecting Ghaddafi to accept. "This all may be for show," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "Ghaddafi must have ordered the bombings -- there are no rogue agents in Libya -- and it's hardly likely that he'll turn over two of his lieutenants...
Shortly before John Glenn left Washington for his flight training, TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger and Washington correspondent Dick Thompson visited him in his Senate office for a wide-ranging discussion of space travel, politics and Glenn's historical legacy. Though apparently happy with where the nation's space program is going, Glenn seems less pleased with the direction in which its political system is heading...