Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treated as a precious commodity, and she is learning shortcuts. Did Warren Christopher have any tips on how to save time with her personal routine? "He can't help me," Albright says. "I wear makeup." She brought from her U.N. office her pictures and awards, her Harlem Globetrotters jersey and signed basketball. She took down the formal portraits of Dean Acheson and Cyrus Vance, symbols of the soft-spoken diplomacy Christopher cherished. In their place she hung portraits of Thomas Jefferson, General George Marshall and her mentor, the late Senator Edmund Muskie...
...skies off the New Jersey and Maryland coasts, F-16 jet fighters came so close to passenger-carrying planes that the Air Force grounded all such flights along the East coast until procedures are checked to ensure public safety. Both incidents involved the Air National Guard's part-time military pilots whose missions include coastal defense...
...Jersey National Guard Colonel Thomas Griffin said that the airliner was never in danger and his pilots were only trying to identify a plane that should not have been in that sector of airspace, which is often restricted to military planes simulating combat. Transcripts obtained by TIME show that FAA controllers were upset at the cat-and-mouse game they felt the F-16 was playing. "You're supposed to keep your guy away from my guy," a New York controller griped to a Navy controller in Virginia, "and it's not looking like it's working that...
...dressed even when wearing a favorite Yankee sweatshirt. He stands in sharp contrast to Gelblum, who is dark-haired and bearded and almost always looks relaxed, even when he is tense. But the two key attorneys for the plaintiffs have much in common. A native of East Orange, New Jersey, Petrocelli dreamed of being a musician. He took up the trumpet and migrated to California to major in music at UCLA. Gelblum, who was a theater major at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, worked as an actor in New York City. He once played a killer on the television series Kojak...
...time-honored tradition of job security. Mandatory service contracts that bind employees as a condition for receiving training are adversarial and largely unenforceable in the real world. They are not part of the answer, as your report suggests, but an extension of the underlying problem. DANIEL COBEN Somerset, New Jersey...