Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems to thaw out in her husband's presence, and there is sweetness in their silent campaign interplay. Coming off the campaign plane two weeks ago in Birmingham, Alabama, she grabbed his arm and made him gaze for a moment at the spectacular red sunset on the horizon. At the end of a long day, she kneads his shoulders, rubs his arm in encouragement, shoots him a supportive smile. Dole, the good Midwesterner, is allergic to public displays of affection--except from his Elizabeth. They seem to share a secret code of gestures: Elizabeth pats him on the lower back...
...most of the time, they check in with each other's schedulers. "Did you give Elizabeth time to eat?" he will ask. "Make sure you fit in some time for Bob to rest," she will say. He gets her itinerary faxed to him daily, including the type of plane she is flying in. He insists that she always fly with two pilots and avoid helicopters. When she slipped and fell in January, he sent her roses and ordered her a pepperoni pizza. For her part, she tries to protect her husband from himself. While on vacation at their condominium...
...agency exploits revolutionary technologies to improve flight safety, such as the enhanced ground-positioning warning system, which might have averted the December crash of an American Airlines jet in Cali, Colombia. Still, even if the FAA takes a more activist role rather than scrambling for cover after the next plane tumbles out of the sky, planes will fall. "We are dealing with machines and people, and they are not flawless," says air-safety expert Rudolf Kapustin. "Sadly, we're going to have accidents. But we can have fewer accidents...
...this moment our star is in a plane over New York City. He needs to reach his main witness (Williams) before some malevolent brutes erase her identity by wiping her out. Figuring that the shortest distance between two points is straight down, Arnold throws a parachute out the plane door, jumps after it, flies like Superman to catch up with it, then dodges the plane as it circles back to kill...
...never stopped swimming either. In May her family gave her a 90th birthday party and then put her on a plane for the U.S. Masters Swimming Championships in Cupertino, California. Aileen, the youngest female gold medalist in 1920 (and oldest living female one in the U.S.), won four gold medals in her age group...