Word: planing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...right before the mayor, since they invited all the candidates and only he and Dennis Kucinich showed up - and Kucinich was late. "The day I filed for office I got more attention on the initiative than I had in 15 years," Gravel told me. "I was getting off a plane and Jennifer Lopez was getting her bags - I didn't recognize her, someone told me - and no one came up to her, but three people came up and pumped my hand...
...this comes even as military-to-military relations are improving. Of course, there was nowhere to go but up after the U.S. mistakenly bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999, and after China forced a U.S. Navy spy plane to land on China's Hainan Island in 2001 and held its 24-person crew for 11 days. Admiral Timothy Keating, chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, said that relations were improving during his recent visit to Beijing. "We're getting to know these guys," he said. But he stressed the need for the Chinese to be more open concerning...
...widely branded as a "narco-guerrilla" group. Perhaps panicked by its dark fortunes of late, the FARC has been trying in recent months to reverse its mafioso image by releasing some of its higher-profile hostages - but not the three U.S. defense contractors it abducted in 2003 after their plane crashed in southern Colombia. Those men - Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves - completed five years in FARC captivity last month. Martin Sombra, the FARC veteran who admits to having been one of the jungle jailkeepers of the three Americans, was captured by Colombian authorities last week. But his arrest...
...says, “may be reliable. Or not.” The portrait features the book’s most indelible image: ignoring the “bulging black cumulus clouds” and eventual thunderstorm, the murderous Ramírez Hoffman sky-wrights a poem from his plane, one line at a time (“Death is friendship,” “Death is Chile,” “Death is my heart”). At the end, Bolaño insists that Ramírez Hoffman can no longer hurt anyone...
...argue it makes more sense simply to fly less. Others argue there are bigger, more realistic environmental gains to be made by building more efficient airplanes. Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, once it's finally shipped out to its buyers, is expected to burn 20% less fuel than similar-sized planes - and that plane will be in commercial use in just a few months. As priorities go in aviation sustainability, "Right now [biofuel] will be very low," Virgin Atlantic CEO Steve Ridgway tells TIME. But with fears that the days of oil are numbered, it only makes sense that a business...