Word: runway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles Johnson, 22, of Louisville, Ky., told how he was looking forward to getting out. "There is no sense being here as sitting ducks," he said. "We are not serving any useful purpose." As he spoke, Army trucks loaded with diesel generators rumbled by. The convoy drove across the runway to the beach, where helicopters hoisted their cargo and ferried it out to ships on the horizon...
...country's economy. Unemployment, which was 14% before the invasion, has ballooned to 33%. Business is at a standstill, awaiting completion of the Cuban-built airstrip (estimated cost: at least $70 million) that the U.S. saw as a strategic threat to the region. These days the two-mile runway mainly serves as a jogging track for the U.S. chargé d'affaires, Charles Gillespie. "If the U.S. doesn't do something quickly," says a local businessman, "the well of pro-American enthusiasm could...
...eyes on another first. If winds and weather are fair in Florida at the end of Challenger's seventh day in orbit - and the problem of Palapa has been resolved - the winged spacecraft will land on the Kennedy Space Center's three-mile-long shuttle runway rather than on the hard-packed sands of California's Edwards Air Force Base. Such a feat would not only go a long way toward proving the shuttle's versatility but also save NASA at least $1 million a mission, the cost of piggybacking the orbiter back from California after...
...sudden military coup. He got there, barely, in a small chartered plane from the Ivory Coast. "Over Lagos," says Wilde, "the harmattan, a dust-laden wind blowing from the Sahara, had reduced visibility to 500 yds. On our first try at landing, one wing nearly scraped the runway; we began to stall. But our nerveless Ivorian pilot gunned the motor, and the plane lifted, shuddering. We made it on the second pass and emerged, wobbly with fear...
...Texas, 17,000 passengers were stranded at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport after three planes skidded off the icy runway. Police reported more than 100 jackknifed tractor trailers, and by midweek the city of Dallas, where the temperature dropped to 11°, had come to a virtual standstill as government offices and businesses stayed closed. "I'm a native Texan, and this weather has just bamboozled me," said Welder Bobby Labar...