Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says, 'Are we in Charlotte?' And my husband says no. And he says, 'I'm going to bring this plane down.' Well, I didn't like that...
...stepped off the plane, two hours late, I held my breath and prayed that the mysterious Yamamotosan would be there. I frantically searched the crowd for my savior, but to my utter dismay there was no sign bearing my name, and no indication of my host. I managed to wait for about 30 seconds until panic began to overtake me. Where was he?! My lower lip began to quiver as I realized I had no phone number, no address, and absolute no idea where I was going. I thought about calling home but then realized that a) I didn...
That is how it goes in theory, at least. The hantavirus outbreak is an example of what can happen when everything goes right: a concentrated cluster of cases to catch the attention of doctors; an excellent local public-health system; a world-class lab a few hours away by plane; and quick identification of the microbe, the carrier and the mode of transmission. But the reality, as any military commander knows, is that the best strategy is useless without the resources to implement...
During the early primaries, when the race was not going well for Dole, the photographers on the campaign plane would play a little game, scrawling a silly message on an orange and rolling it up the aisle toward his seat. One message read: CALIFORNIA OR BUST! Dole would watch the orange but never roll it back, leaving it to an aide to pick it up and read him the message. But the morning after his critical win in the South Carolina primary, Dole leaned over and grabbed the orange. "We're on a roll!" he yelled, and rolled it back...
...cutting. He recently described the economy as being "in the tank," although each new piece of economic data suggests otherwise. The lack of discipline reached the point where policy czar Donald Rumsfeld, a former Nixon aide, urged Reed to put a stronger handler--plus four personal secretaries--on the plane with Dole, just the way Nixon used to travel. Reed asked Margaret Tutwiler, a longtime top aide to former Secretary of State James Baker, to take over the fuselage team. "If Margaret Tutwiler is supposed to be the adult supervisor on the plane," said a top Dole aide...