Word: groundedness
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The more than two-hundred issues bandied about were diverse enough to create stark contrasts. Some demonstrators preached anarchy. Others simply preached, like the Critical Path group, which encouraged all who strolled by--black-masked punks, tie-dyed hippies and camera-happy delegates--to embrace a progressivism grounded in compassion...
Yet the plane had been having mishaps - little things. In October a piece of tail fell off in mid-flight. Last January, within a span of 24 hours, two British Airways Concordes had to make emergency landings for technical reasons - one engine failure, one mysterious false alarm. A few months...
After the crash, Air France asserted, perhaps prematurely, that the crash was due not to any wing problem, like sneaking cracks, but to an exploding engine. That makes it the fastest investigation on record. They have not grounded the fleet beyond a thorough maintenance check, which on these delicate birds...
That's what cell phones are for: Much of the hallway chatter in Okinawa was about the strange near-death and rebirth of the Camp David talks just hours before Clinton departed last Wednesday. Officials insist it was not a ploy. In fact, National Security Council spokesman P. J. Crowley...
Overseer Richard E. Oldenburg '54 rounds out the committee. Grounded in the humanities, Oldenburg is the honorary chair of Sotheby's North and South America and is the director emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.