Word: planes
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...acting Pentagon inspector general, which recommends disciplinary measures against a cluster of Air Force generals and civilian procurement specialists. The report accuses several Pentagon officials of advancing McDonnell Douglas Corp. $500 million in 1990 to see the aerospace giant through troubles associated with the C-17 military transport plane. The report urges disciplinary action for three generals and two civilians alleged to be involved in the scandal. McDonnell Douglas and the Air Force dismissed the more than 100-page report as old news, but the inspector general's recommendation for disciplinary and possibly criminal sanctions was a startling departure from...
Bush sat at the plane's window last Wednesday afternoon and watched the placid fields of Texas rise to claim him again. "Feels good," he said. No argument from his companions, many of whom had joined him when he began his presidential quest...
...help thinking that this sadness is informed by real pain. McEntire has been through divorce and remarriage. She has known true catastrophe: in 1991 seven members of her band were killed in a plane crash. Tragedy, when absorbed and reflected on, can give an artist depth. Some artists seek it, others have it thrust upon them. It's the difference between martyrdom and masochism -- McEntire's scars are earned...
...THIS FOR ALIVE, DIRECTOR FRANK Marshall's version of the Piers Paul Read best seller about a 1972 Andes plane crash that forced its surviving passengers to cannibalism: early on, the movie has a great avalanche. After that, it's all downhill. The acting (Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano are the stars) starts at a pitch of whiny hysteria and rarely lets up. The dialogue, by ace playwright John Patrick Shanley, sounds as if poorly translated from the Spanish: "What have we done that God now asks us to eat the bodies of our own dead friends?" Dissing aside, that...
...plane and people were clapping," the amazed Furse says...