Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...safety-board explosion expert Merritt Birky explained that a spark carrying one-quarter millijoule of energy was all that was necessary to ignite the contents of the 12,890-gal. central fuel tank of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 off Long Island--a tank that then exploded, destroying the plane and killing all 230 people aboard...
Kalra said the cost of the plane trip and the long hours that many have to spend in the air to reach their homes deter some from spending the holidays with family and friends...
...reporter observed that as Vice President, Truman rarely saw F.D.R. Gore changed the subject. And when the other correspondent asked him about the state of Clinton's second term, he rolled his eyes and moaned, "Don't make me work." Then he retreated to the front of the plane and sent back an answer in writing...
...pediatrician with a direct, matter-of-fact manner, Ruth and her lanky husband Mike had abandoned Spokane, Wash., six months before and settled in the exclusive Cincinnati suburb of Beckett Ridge. A pilot at Airborne, Mike had been commuting by plane to Wilmington for his seven-day work stints, but a terrifying incident had taken place at the Spokane military hospital where Ruth was working: a gunman rampaged through the place, killing five and wounding 23. "I was in Wilmington when it happened," says Mike, 39. "And I said, 'Enough.'" Beckett Ridge was safer, but to Ruth, 35, the place...
...help from his friends in the U.N. Security Council, Saddam produced a flurry of prestidigitation that was defiant and seemingly conciliatory at the same time. He demanded an end to U.N. inspections and sanctions in six months, threatened again to shoot down the U-2 reconnaissance plane that periodically photographs his key installations and then invited foreign diplomats and scholars to visit his presidential palaces as "guests" (the same term he used for his hostages before the Gulf War). But of course, he added, the expert inspectors of the U.N. Special Commission must stay...