Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...service on board wasn't much better than the price. The flight was a seven-hour test of strength from Miami to Buenos Aires with a stop in Asuncion, Paraguay, and the plane was packed...
...consummated in just four days. On Sunday, Feb. 16, board members got the first calls summoning them to a special meeting in New York City. On Thursday, they voted 21 to 1 to bounce Nicholas, who had pointedly declined to attend. Rejecting an offer of a company plane that would pick him up in Vail, Colo., Nicholas chose instead to continue a family skiing vacation and sent his so-called resignation to New York...
...Tokyo in two hours by taking a side trip into orbit. It turns out that while space fan DAN QUAYLE has doggedly pursued the plans -- with marginal success so far--the former Soviet Union had plowed ahead of the U.S. Soviet scientists successfully tested an engine for a space plane last year. The Pentagon might consider placing a few help-wanted ads in Yeltsin country...
THIS IS NOT to say that Smulyan and other owners owe all their financial difficulties to the outrageous demands of players. Among the expenses that Smulyan has attributed to the Mariners when calculating his "losses" are a chartered plane to take him from Indianapolis to "home" games (Arakawa could take the bus) and payments he is still making on the loan that financed his purchase of the team in the first place. Smulyan is not losing money--he is just not making as much as he wants as quickly as he had hoped...
Authorities had no explanation for the crash, which occurred while the crew was practicing a maneuver called "low approach," in which the plane would fly close to but not touch the airstrip of nearby Evansville Regional Airport. Soon after takeoff, the plane went into a nose dive. William Capodagli was in a seminar room of the motel when the plane hit. "There was this incredible fireball bursting through our window," he says. "Where there should have been daylight was a big spinning ball of flame...