Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Citing video footage from one of two U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters involved in the confrontation Wednesday, Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard said one of the Libyan fighters carried four missiles on its fuselage and wings...
...United Nations, the Soviet ambassador, Alexander M. Belonogov, told reporters Thursday that Moscow "gave a warning signal to Washington," before the American jet fighters shot down the Libyan planes, to show restraint and "not to raise the tension in the area." He refused to elaborate...
Final results: two victories, two losses, jet lag and a memorable experience...
MOST FRILLS ON A GOLDEN PARACHUTE Gerald Tsai, head of the Primerica financial-services firm, grabbed $40 million in severance when he sold the company, whose holdings include the brokerage firm Smith Barney, to Commercial Credit Group. Part of Tsai's deal: 120 hours free use of the corporate jet and a consulting contract that will pay him additional income for time he spends working in the office on his yacht...
Less than two minutes later, the fire storm began over Lockerbie. Said George Gilston, who was walking his dog when the jet fell out of the sky: "I heard a noise like thunder, and then I saw the outline of a plane dropping, nose down, straight into the ground." Peter O'Brien was driving by on the A74 highway. "The whole sky lit up as though it was daylight," he said later. "The car behind me was engulfed in flames, and houses were suddenly on fire, as if petrol had been sprayed over them. It was an incredible inferno." Recalled...