Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yard section of the street is given over every Sunday to a complicated obstacle course of traffic cones. At one end of this maze lies the showpiece, a three foot high wooden ramp. Trevor occasionally soars off this slanted plane, putting up to seven feet of air between himself and the ramp...
...plane started moving. I thought it wasgoing to take off." Choe said. A passenger next tohim revealed the reason for the aircraft'srocking. "He said. "That's not the plane, that'sanother earthquake!" Choe recalled...
...pump more money into circulation. Gaidar expects the amount of cash coming off government presses to increase fivefold by August, much of it in new 1,000- and 5,000-ruble notes. To sweeten the public mood on a visit to Siberia last month, Yeltsin ordered that a second plane accompany him loaded with 500 million rubles in back...
Arafat's two intimations of mortality -- the plane crash in the Libyan desert last April and the surgery necessitated by bruising suffered in that mishap -- come at a time of unprecedented discontent with his 23-year leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The chairman, his detractors say, has become too autocratic, too out of touch, too unresponsive to a changing world scene. "He's become the Palestinian Leonid Brezhnev," complains a political scientist at the West Bank's An-Najah University...
...trip that took him to 51 Pacific islands, from New Guinea to Easter Island to Hawaii. His goal was to retrace, in part, the bold voyages of early Polynesian seafarers who gave this vast area a common culture, now corrupt and moribund. Theroux took the big hops by plane or ship. But his preferred mode of travel was a collapsible, 16-ft.-long French-made kayak, which he paddled -- carefully -- through dangerous waters infested by crocodiles, sharks and stinging Portuguese man-of-wars...