Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take great heart in the fact that fundamentally, the underpinning of our market is solid," said John Shaughnessy, chief investment strategist at Advest Inc. in Hartford, Conn
...what's obvious isn't always true. The plane in which John Denver died last week was indeed an experimental aircraft, a model called the Long-EZ. But it would be naive to assume that the airplane was at fault. Not only is the Long-EZ considered solid, safe and relatively easy to fly, but it also requires a pilot's license and medical certificate to operate--and Denver didn't have the latter. His certificate had been yanked by the Federal Aviation Administration after Denver was arrested twice for driving his car while intoxicated...
That doesn't necessarily mean Denver made any mistakes--other than flying without a medical certificate. There's no evidence that he'd been drinking that day. "He was a solid pilot," says Tom Poberezny, president of the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wis. The man who recently sold Denver the nine-year-old plane says the singer took it up for two checkout flights before the final, fatal one. The investigation still being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board may test another theory: that Denver had a freak collision with a pelican. But unless the NTSB finds otherwise...
...look at sexual orientation in a more open light." The Christian Coalition immediately responded by saying Gore was "way out of the mainstream." Meanwhile, the dominance of the gay theme seems to have created friction between ABC and DeGeneres. She publicly threatened to quit the show, which has had solid ratings, after the network ran a parental advisory before a recent episode in which Ellen jokingly kissed a straight female friend. In a future show, Ellen and a woman go into a bedroom; ABC at first forbade that but is said to have relented...
...Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa, meanwhile, drew a line in the sand for speculators, vowing the Hong Kong dollar's 14-year peg to the U.S. dollar is rock solid. He noted that the territory has US$88 billion in foreign reserves to defend its currency...