Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, perhaps the benefits of Internet comparison shopping, so helpful for buying everything from books to plane tickets, can also help America better choose their next president...
Anyone who doubts should talk to the family of the woman killed because her ankle showed as she rode a bicycle. Or the flight attendant on my plane home. I thought the glimmer of recognition in her eyes came from watching obscure cable talk shows and that she was about to toss me an upgrade. In fact, Nasrin was a recent emigre who had twisted her schedule around to be at the event. Her story of brutality shocked me out of my fear of a middle seat. She'd fled here with her mother, leaving behind a father in prison...
...country most violently opposed, outside Yugoslavia, is Russia. Moscow has been arguing against using force for months, and Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov was in the air bound for Washington last week when the decision to bomb was made. As his plane headed across the Atlantic, Primakov got a call from Vice President Al Gore, who said the air strikes were now inevitable and proposed a joint statement postponing the meeting. Primakov curtly refused and headed home...
...weeks ago, I boarded a plane, which used to be a great place to do nothing, and noticed that the man next to me was a nervous wreck. I considered wrestling him to the floor, but he looked more like a nicotine fiend than a terrorist. So the plane takes off, we hit the electronic-device clearance altitude at 10,000 ft., and Mr. Jitters whips out a Game...
...cool. Because that's the sort of thing I should be doing. I should be telling the newspapers, "Mel and I are very close. I can't really get into my relationship with Mel because it's very deep, on a whole other plane...