Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly, one reason for the increase in near midairs is that air traffic has soared under deregulation. Flying accounts for nearly 90% of all interstate travel; the annual number of airline passengers has jumped from 292 million in 1978 to 415 million last year. The number of airlines, including cargo...
Critics counter that the FAA's stricter reporting system may just be catching up to the frightening reality in the skies. Moreover, the FAA has loosened another requirement: until 1985 planes that passed within 1,000 ft. of each other vertically were considered too close, and the incident had to...
But the sleepy insularity of Howard Beach ended last week. Overnight a brutal attack against three young black men at a local pizza parlor turned the neighborhood into a national synonym for flagrant racial violence. The death of one of the young blacks and the apparently unprovoked beating of all...
In 1966 Mao turned the restless energy of the country's youth inward, recruiting thousands of students to serve as Red Guards, the ideological shock troops of the Chairman's tumultuous Cultural Revolution. Though students played an often brutal role in the ten-year purge of the country's intellectual...
In Washington, the State Department said in a statement: "We are gratified that the Sandinistas have released Hasenfus and that he will be reunited with his family during the Christmas season. However, the handling of this entire incident was orchestrated by the Sandinistas for maximum propaganda effect."