Word: plane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first things you notice here is the smoking. Everyone smokes, male and female, young and old. They smoke on the street, in restaurants, in office, in hotel lobbies. I was relieved when I discovered that my flight on Malev, the Hungarian national airline, would be smoke-free; that plane might have been the last smoke-free public place I see before boarding my return flight to the States...
...enrollments at state schools would "leave it to the private universities to do the public's work." Afterward, when reporters needed a pithy quote from the other side, Connerly was available. As a U.C. regent, he had been sitting on the dais with Clinton. Then Connerly jumped into a plane and flew to Washington to debate Jackson on Meet the Press. "There's nothing like an attack by the President," Connerly says, "to help you get your message...
...aided doctors performing autopsies on strange-looking, small bodies. The nurse, he added, had sworn him to secrecy and had been transferred to England, and flown out of the base shortly after they spoke. Later, he said, he heard that she had been killed in a plane crash...
...YORK CITY: The increasing likelihood that the crash of TWA Flight 800 was the result of mechanical failure may turn out to be good news for Boeing. The reason? Airlines are now even more anxious to replace their older planes with newer models. Days after Newsday said that a draft report by the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the 26-year-old plane essentially came apart in midair, Continental Airlines finalized a $3.5 billion order with Boeing to upgrade its fleet. "That 747 had logged 110,000 flying hours," Lee Kreindler, who represents some of the families in civil...
...cons in Con Air could almost have landed their plane on it. We speak of The Desk, the 20-ft.-long, T-shaped mahogany table once shared by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. From this monolith the two producers launched enough script-to-screen missiles to become Hollywood's premier action faction. Their two-hour commercials for American machismo (Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Bad Boys, Crimson Tide) made stars of their young actors and quillions for S. and B. Then in January of last year, Simpson died at 52 of a drug overdose. The industry asked, Whither--or wither...