Word: garveyism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...taking blood out of people," says John Steinhaus, 62. And so began a war that rages to this day. Country roads are flagged with GO AWAY PERRIER! signs, and villagers brainstorm daily to keep multibillion-dollar Perrier from siphoning a single drop. They've even hired Madison attorney Ed Garvey, who brought the N.F.L. to its knees in 1982 by leading the strike...
...first Pokemon World Championship. In case you're clueless--or past age 14--here's how it works: players "train" six creatures on their Nintendo Game Boys, upload them to virtual stadiums and they bludgeon one another into comas. U.S. hopes rest on national champ Ian Garvey, 13, from New Hope...
...runway incursions of last year, and he will call on lawmakers to take swift action. "Runway incursions are the No. 1 problem in aviation today," says Hall. "The FAA has run off the runway and is in a ditch on this one, and they better get out quick." Jane Garvey, director of the FAA, will be put in the hot seat by, among others, Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf, who says the hearing will serve as "a hot compress on a boil...
...take some small steps to make runways safer. Garvey says a regional airport manager told her to make sure the lights in airports were washed more frequently, and she intends to do that. The FAA has also installed bigger and brighter signs, embedded lights in the tarmac pavement and painted more lines on taxiways. And last week, as part of Garvey's new commitment to the issue, the FAA announced programs to provide refresher training for controllers and to encourage pilots to come forward to report runway incursions...
...confidently sent its chief, Jane Garvey, flying from Washington to Dallas during the key hour of midnight Greenwich Mean Time. The only surprising thing about the flight was that the FAA chief had to fly coach. Joining her were 36 passengers, including one brave TIME reporter, Washington Senator Slade Gorton and Janet Rhodes, 63, whose life's goal was to fly during midnight of the millennium. Rhodes booked the trip months in advance, had her flight canceled twice owing to lack of passengers and eventually got a ticket on the flight Garvey was taking, figuring American couldn't cancel that...