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Word: flighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tried to halt urban flight by focusingon quality of life issues like schools, safety andinfrastructure, Keane said...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candidate For Eighth District Seat Speaks at IOP | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

...early announcement also upset many relatives of the 270 people who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. "This idea opens a Pandora's box, and they just want to dump the sanctions," said Susan Cohen after speaking with Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger. And with none of the logistics of conducting a Scottish trial in The Hague worked out, even President Clinton seemed skeptical: "We're looking at it but I don't know that it can be done," he said. Memo to State: Next time, make sure everyone's on the same page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tremors Over Lockerbie | 7/22/1998 | See Source »

...warning, according to his own internal clock." Whatever foibles this space pioneer carried inside him, they never poisoned the camaraderie among the original seven Mercury astronauts named by NASA in April 1959. Not too long ago, says Kluger, Shepard was talking to John Glenn about Glenn's upcoming space flight. "Glenn told him that it could be Shepard going up, except he wasn't old enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Shepard, 1923-1998 | 7/22/1998 | See Source »

...TRAVEL CHANNEL It is television's responsibility to give us the world without forcing us to interact with it. While the Travel Channel occasionally makes you want to book a flight, it usually cures your wanderlust safely. Lonely Planet, when hosted by energetic Brit Ian Wright, gives you the parts of the world you'd never see even if you decided to use your vacation time to go to Greenland and Ethiopia. Wright will eat anything, climb anything and bother anyone in the cheeriest way possible. Almost as good is Adventure Bound, where insane Australian former bricklayer Alby Mangels delights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How to Survive Summer | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...working. Robinson says the average length of major league games this year has dropped 7 min. in the American League, 6 min. in the National. But will top-flight major leaguers like Yankee second baseman Chuck Knoblauch, whose at-bat rituals rival those of a Hindu mystic, really adjust to tighter limits on their behavior? Listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midnight Baseball | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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