Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time addictions counselor Bill Partridge got to the shack minutes later, all hell was breaking loose. "The kids were screaming insults, throwing themselves around at the walls," recounts Partridge. "They said they wanted to die. They were all suicidal." The local Innu Council immediately chartered a plane to take the youngsters, under police escort, to a group home near Goose Bay, 186 miles to the south. Later, three more gasoline-sniffing youths were evacuated to await transfer to another native rehabilitation center...
...planes have crashed and no lives have been lost -- so far. But TIME has obtained a stack of pilot reports linking a series of "anomalies" to a wide variety of electronic gadgets, from laptop computers to Nintendo Game Boys. In one striking example, a plane flying out of Chicago started veering off course while its VOR dials dimmed and danced around. When the passenger in seat 9-D turned off his laptop, the report states, the "panel lights immediately brightened dramatically and all navigation aids returned to normal...
...government that drives its own cars, pays for its own meals and flies coach. Of course, worrying over such things is generally derided as cheap theater that saves almost no money. Yet, as symbolism goes, Clinton's plan to end limousine gridlock and severely limit the use of government planes is gratifying when one considers that a year or so ago flying on a government plane to a dentist appointment was not considered a firing offense...
...report last month by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility included charges that he received preferential treatment on a home mortgage, allowed his wife to accompany him on 111 trips without compensating the government for her travel expenses, and flew a load of firewood on an FBI plane, among other offenses. To answer complaints of a double standard within the bureau, last month, shortly after the OPR report was made public, senior aides decided they would delay action against staff members who were accused of disobeying rules that the director himself had allegedly broken. But Sessions promptly overruled...
...Square contains a plane of wretched excess, conspicuous consumerism and degeneracy. I freely admit that I fantasize about riding at the head of a phalanx of Sherman tanks, Li Peng at my side, and squashing the whole fetid dump...