Word: planes
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This four-CD set is roughly organized according to CD, foscusing, in turn, on early singles, then, later, more modern stuff--posthomous tracks released after Otis's death (he died in a plane crash in December 1967)--and live recordings...
...success in the negotiations were improved by the late arrival of powerful clan leader Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who boycotted a U.N.-sponsored humanitarian-aid meeting earlier in the week. Aidid, only recently the target of a manhunt by U.S. forces, flew to the conference aboard an American military plane...
...Tourism is supposed to be the country's short-term salvation, but it also accentuates the difference between those with dollars and those without. Everyone wants to work at Varadero: hotel maids earn more in tips than peso-poor engineers; teachers and Angola veterans drive cabs; and psychologists make plane reservations. The expertise of the Cubans who work for Eamonn Donnelly, the Irish manager of two German-owned hotels, runs from agronomy to piloting MiG fighters...
...effacing, H. Lin, 30, a young factory worker from the rural province of Fujian in China, left his family behind in the old country earlier this year to seek his fortune in America. For a fee of $30,000, which he borrowed, he was smuggled into the country by plane at Honolulu. Confronted by the INS, Lin claimed political asylum, boarded another plane and promptly disappeared into the nearly impenetrable subculture of New York City's Chinatown...
Like many illegal Irish, Colm began by working in the building trades as a "J.F.K. carpenter," as the new Irish arrivals at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport were called. "As soon as you get off the plane they hand you a toolbox and you go to work." He has also moonlighted as a fiacre driver in Central Park and a boxer in Atlantic City, New Jersey, although his real ambition is someday to be a cop or fireman...