Word: runway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scale of the uprising had surprised and panicked Aquino. Rebel troops quickly took over Villamor Air Base and blocked loyal pilots from taking off in their helicopter gunships. Fort Bonifacio fell. Minutes later, the rebels sent patrols down the runway of the neighboring international airport, effectively shutting it down. At the same time, two truckloads of insurgent marines led a convoy of cars and trucks toward TV Channels 2 and 4, about 20 minutes away in Quezon City. They entered the grounds of Channel 4, the government station, without being challenged; 45 minutes later Channel 2 was also occupied...
...first sight upon landing in St. Thomas is half a DC-3, broken like a baguette and tossed off to the side of the runway. Piles of debris remain lumped by the roadside in many places, but most streets are clear. This does not mean that traffic is exactly flowing, since stoplights are still broken. Most places now have electricity, but few have television, and the phones can be temperamental. But for the tens of thousands of tourists who tumble out of the cruise ships into Charlotte Amalie each week, the effects of the storm are almost hidden. Most...
...Junk Bond Fund Drive. Derek Bok could lead a group of aspiring student financiers to Wall Street with enough of Harvard's endowment to buy out the Trump Shuttle. After renaming it the Harvard Shuttle, and promising that it will run on time, they could build a runway behind Soldier's Field...
...found deep fissures running the length of the pier floor. With no alternative pier to sail from, the 150-boat commercial-fishing fleet has been idled just as the herring and Dungeness crab season was about to open. Other damage ranged from cracks in the paving of the main runway at Oakland International Airport to the rotting of 125,000 crates of strawberries at Watsonville, in the South Bay area, spoiled when electrical failure knocked out refrigeration equipment. And somewhere in Oakland 200 snakes and lizards, including a 6-ft. python, are at large, having escaped from twisted cages...
...American designer. Says he: "Donna understands a woman's body the way Coco Chanel did." A size 12 herself, Karan boasts the rare and eternally marketable talent of cutting a skirt or a pair of pants so that they flatter a woman's hips even if she is not runway-thin...