Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with too much luggage is a last-minute ritual, too. But there is one final thing to remember: the tickets. Those airline tickets, which were received three months ago from faraway parents, are now nowhere to be found. As one stresses out in the last few minutes before the flight departure, one has to wonder whether there is an easier way to get home. Karen Kennedy, a representative of Delta Airlines, gives a resounding "yes" when she says the answer can be found in "the new wave in ticketing...
MONDAY Yesterday morning I left for Washington and spent most of the five-hour United flight to Dulles catching up on my E-mail backlog and reviewing my opening statement for the hearing. Watched a little of the latest James Bond movie on the flight. Somehow the new Bond movies are not as good as the ones I saw when I was young, or maybe it's me that is different...
Last week's terse, 70-page report of the Marine inquiry into the February 3 Italian ski lift tragedy blamed the jet fighter's crew for the deaths of 20 people. But a closer read yields an interesting discrepancy. On the one hand, the flight of the EA-6B Prowler was described as a hair-raising ride, in which the plane flew too low and too fast until the collision. On the other was the description of crew members, whom colleagues and commanders praised for their flying skills and professionalism. And all the 35 EA-6B flyers interviewed said they...
While quick to point out that Ivy League admissions should not be the only measure of success for a given school, Andrews also notes that Winsor graduates tend to excel at a variety of top flight schools. She attributes this success to the self-confidence Hamm observed in her ownclassroom at Georgetown Visitation...
...Marines are not just holding the pilot responsible for the Prowler air crash that killed 20 people at an Italian ski resort, they?re considering charges against all four crew members. ?There?s only one set of flight controls on that aircraft,? says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. ?Pointing the finger at all four men suggests there may have been a pact among them to engage in some sort of horseplay. The Marines were not impressed that all four crewmen initially refused to testify, allowing them to collude and present a common account...