Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American travelers about lax safeguards against terrorism at the airport. White House aides feared such a warning would prompt a frosty reception for Hillary Clinton when she visited Athens in March to witness the lighting of the Olympic flame. Outraged FAA officials protested that travelers shouldn't be kept in the dark about the warning--which was required by law. Eventually White House lawyers decided the warning couldn't be skirted, so it was issued on March 21, a week before Mrs. Clinton's visit. The White House then pressured the Transportation Department to lift the warning as quickly...
...Jefferson was looking for money to expand the New Orleans airport. "The bottom line is that there isn't a fund for forward-looking capital projects to provide safety and security equipment for our airports," Jefferson told Time. Soon there may be no fund at all. Congressional squabbling has kept the ticket tax from being reimposed. Unless Congress acts, the fund, with $2.5 billion on hand last week, is expected to run dry by year...
...When my neighbor and I headed out in his Whaler," says a construction contractor, 53, who was one of the first on the scene, "we thought we were going to find survivors. We came upon dead bodies, but we kept looking for people who were still alive. Then we realized nobody was alive. I saw legs, a head. I said, 'Please, God, don't let me see a kid.' Then...
...about his training. But the sessions turned into something more: discussions about how to integrate Dan O'Brien the athlete with Dan O'Brien the person. "It was really, really interesting for me," he says now. "I was happy practicing, but I wasn't happy all the time. I kept wondering what would it be like if I was just a normal person, if I had a normal job." Now, he says, he no longer wonders. The "world's greatest athlete" realizes there is nothing for him to do but keep competing until his body betrays...
...cancel the games, that would be absurd," he said. Only about 20,000 people were in the stands for the track competition at Olympic Stadium this morning compared to more than 80,000 on Friday, but officials speculated that it was the steady rain, not sudden fear, that kept people away. Fans at the first day of whitewater slalom competition were delayed more than two hours as officials increased security at the venues. During the beach volleyball competition, officials roving the aisles spotted an unattended bag in the upper level of the stand, and rapidly cleared about 100 people from...