Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harry Stonecipher spent last Christmas at his St. Petersburg, Florida, home. He wasn't happy about that. Angered because carriers like AirAsia and Air Berlin were buying rival Airbus planes, all too aware that the European manufacturer would soon be rolling out its 555-seat, double-decker A380 jumbo liner - and was also developing a smaller plane, the A350, to compete with his new baby, the Boeing 737 - Stonecipher had told his salespeople he would travel anywhere in the world, even on Christmas Day, if he was needed to close a deal. No one called. "That troubled me. The whole...
...that Mama Kerry used to bake for little John. The generous amounts of chocolate in the cookie would satisfy even the sweetest tooth. The more adventuresome eater can sample new concoctions, such as the Heath Bar cookies and White Chocolate Chippers, in addition to an assortment of chocolate, fudges, jumbo peanut butter cups, macaroons and congo bars...
...robbed banks because "that's where the money is." Actually, museums are where the money is. Where else can you find so many portable items of stupendous value within arm's reach? In a single gallery there can be canvases worth more, taken together, than a whole fleet of jumbo jets. And while banks can hide their money in vaults, museums, by their very mission, are compelled to put their valuables in plain sight...
...different from everybody else, could he? That angel he's got in England - that's just mind-boggling, the size of that goddamn thing." In 1995, the Turner Prize?winning artist erected a 22-m-high steel angel with wings the span of a jumbo jet's on a hill in northern England. But that was nothing compared to the logistics of Lake Ballard...
...overemphasized the importance of neural activity and brain physiology and made no mention of the need for moral guidance. Teenagers may read between the lines of the physiological mumbo jumbo and giggle with glee as they decide there is nothing they can do to change their ways. Why not discuss how dysfunctional family situations affect teen behavior? There is more to raising a teenager than studying brain physiology. Cecil Asfour Dallas...