Word: flown
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...reached the top of the staircase and stepped out onto the far end of the concrete platform, fresh air would hit me in the face. I could look up and see the sky. It was usually empty—I think a flock of geese may have flown overhead once—but there was something so satisfying about being able to see the sky directly above Jamaica Avenue, unobstructed by that hulking strip of steel; it’s a small thing, though something I hadn’t been able to do at all during my childhood...
...good enough." Not good enough for Taiwanese, or for the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), apparently. The CDC announced on Thursday that a staffer named Chesley Richards, one of nine Americans in Taiwan assisting authorities with the epidemic, had developed SARS-like symptoms and would be flown home immediately?bucking WHO recommendations that suspected SARS patients not be moved around, for fear of increasing the risk of transmission...
...most-wanted Iraqis into custody. But despite the negotiations, Numan's capture was not voluntary - unlike that of deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz. Aziz was allowed to give himself up to US authorities after which his immediate relatives and the family members of other Iraqi elites were reportedly flown out of the country on a US C130...
...live in California is to go about your business knowing the earth could move under your feet at any moment. That's pretty much the tectonic nature of California politics too, with voters regularly floating recall petitions to throw out their elected officials and pushing referendums on high-flown social questions like whether a police officer should be allowed to carry a ventriloquist's dummy. So over the past few months, while Governor Gray Davis has battled with the legislature over the state's deepening fiscal crisis, he has paid little heed to the underground rumble of a loosely organized...
...filmmaker, best known for directing Monsoon Wedding last year, had flown in hours before from London, where she is filming a screen adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon...