Word: plane
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...divorce from his first wife, who had been a college girlfriend, he started therapy, and he has stayed with it. His three-year, $30 million contract stipulates that that his son Matthew, now 10, who is often the Cardinal bat boy, gets a seat on the team plane...
...whenever he would get into his limo, or off Air Force One," says TIME Daily Washington correspondent Declan McCullagh. "But he barely even looked up. Then we'd ask him, 'Can we ask you some questions?' That didn't work either. But once, they had started up the press plane, and the engine was roaring, so you couldn't hear a thing. Clinton looked over to us and waved, and shouted something. He knew we couldn't possibly hear him, and that he wouldn't be able to hear us. So he pretended to wait for a question, and then...
...Mandela is staying coy and there's no certainty, but the signs are that there may be a small wedding at his home on Saturday," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. Machel is the widow of Samora Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, who died in a plane crash in 1987. South Africa's Truth Commission is currently probing allegations that foul play by the apartheid authorities may have contributed to that crash...
...grown skillful at extracting deep discounts from Boeing and Airbus by holding out huge contracts and bargaining hard on terms. In its latest solicitation, British Airways took bids from Boeing and Airbus for 100 jets with a total value of some $3.8 billion. British Airways has never bought a plane from Airbus, and Boeing doesn't want the streak to end. So the jetmakers have been battling over everything from prices to innovative leasing deals that British Airways wants on highly favorable terms...
...immediate future of air travel. Airbus foresees a market for a superjumbo successor to the 747 that can haul anywhere from 555 to nearly 1,000 passengers. (The largest 747 carries as many as 568 people.) Working with some 20 airlines, Airbus is spending $9 billion to develop a plane it calls the A3XX and promises to roll out the monster by 2004. Boeing says its own "medium-large" 767s and 777s can easily connect cities such as Cincinnati, Ohio, and Frankfurt, Germany, eliminating the need for superjumbo jets to gather passengers from around the country at hub airports like...