Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week was a bravura diplomatic debut for a Midwestern ex-Senator of primarily domestic bent who in the past year had barnstormed the American heartland aboard a chartered commercial jet nicknamed Minnesota Fritz. Mondale successfully managed the transition to Air Force Two and international relations, thanks in part to intensive homework (during Inauguration week, he put himself through a 30-hour crash course). He was also helped by his self-deprecating good humor. "Where's the bed?" he exclaimed with a look of mock desperation on his face as he padded down the aisle in tennis shoes. "Jerry Ford...
...that water temperatures in the Pacific rose a few degrees higher than normal last fall off the west coast of North America, while dropping off in midocean. He believes that these temperature shifts influence the winds and determine the course of storms that work their way up to the jet-stream level. Harry Geise, a California meteorologist, blames the storms and frigid temperatures on a high-pressure zone of warm air hovering off the country's Pacific coast and sometimes shifting over land...
...charge that Israel is selling this modified equipment to third nations, including certain countries with which U.S. companies are barred by law from doing business. One case was the purchase by Honduras last year of eight French-built Mystère fighters, which the Israelis had equipped with U.S. jet engines. A more serious complaint comes from Raytheon Co., which accuses the Israelis of scavenging an air-to-air missile called Shafrir out of Raytheon's Sidewinder-specifically, by stealing Sidewinder's infra-red guidance system -and then selling it to Chile...
...usually launches jet planes from the flight deck of his ship. The other is best known for promoting fights involving Ali, Foreman and Frazier. Last week Captain Frank Rush, commander of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington, and Don King, the flamboyant boxing promoter, got their acts together. They jointly presided over one of the odder events in boxing annals: six professional bouts, all fought off Pensacola, Fla., in a ring planted squarely on the Lexington's 910-ft. flight deck...
...this century, machine guns and grenades are the international credit cards allowing the carrier to publicize his grievance or renovate his ego. Terrorism is now an upward path to social status. Third World terrorists belong to a jet set that is more likely to hide out in luxury hotels than in village hovels. When he runs short of cash, for example, Yasser Arafat simply calls Libya's oil-rich Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi...