Word: jetted
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...contradictions of his job. He is both a vigorous fund raiser - collecting more than $135 million over his career - and the nation's leading G.O.P. campaign-finance reformer. His inner circle includes current and former lobbyists, but he has sponsored bills limiting their influence. He has begged discount private-jet flights from companies seeking his favor but also led an effort to end the discount lending practice. McCain is, in other words, not an easy man to judge...
...entanglement between McCain's office and Alcalde's firm went further. In December 1999, FCC chairman William Kennard chastised McCain for writing a letter encouraging the resolution to a licensing matter involving Paxson Communications. The letter was written one day after McCain had been flown on a Paxson jet to a fund raiser on a yacht in West Palm Beach, Fla., and just weeks before Paxson's owner was scheduled to hold a fund raiser for McCain. The appearance problem was so severe that John Weaver, McCain's political adviser at the time, asked one of Alcalde's lobbyists...
...their season openers in Tokyo, the third time Major League Baseball (MLB), the U.S. sports association, has staged such an event in the last eight years. When the second game (which the A's took 5-1) was over at 9:51 p.m., the two teams, barely recovered from jet lag from the trip over, hopped a bus for nearby Haneda International Airport and a pair of all-night 11-hour flights across the Pacific...
This spring three of the rugged ships stand out from the rest. Near Saturn, the Cassini orbiter, launched by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, just executed a dramatic dive through an icy geyser that reaches 950 miles (1,530 km) into space from the Saturnian moon Enceladus, and there are plans to follow that up with even higher-risk maneuvers. In May NASA's Phoenix Lander will set down in Mars' arctic region in search of water ice. And later this month NASA and the European Space Agency will retire their Ulysses solar surveyor after a 17-year mission that...
...nation "continues to assign a higher priority to programs designed to confront conventional military threats, such as ballistic missiles," says terror expert Stephen Flynn, "than [to] unconventional threats, such as a weapon of mass destruction smuggled into the United States by a ship, train, truck or even private jet." The same logic led the country to spend 20 times more, last year, on protecting military bases than on safeguarding the infrastructure of U.S. cities. "We essentially are hardening military bases," Flynn told Congress recently, "and making civilian assets more attractive, softer targets for our adversaries...