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...winter skies. "It sure was hauling. It was a really speedy dive," Jerry Cullin, a pilot, told KXAN, the local NBC affiliate. "It shot across the road going really fast." Cullin had stopped to get his midmorning coffee at the local Marie Callender's when he saw the plane swoop down. It was so low, Cullin said, he could see the plane's belly and thought he might get hit. The plane almost clipped one of the tall light poles lining the freeway before crashing into the building...
...have been packaged into commercial mortgage backed securities won't qualify for refinancing when they come due. Second, banks are already facing painful choices about what to do with short-term land and construction loans that will never be paid off in full. Finally, the vulture investors who usually swoop in and refire markets after a bust are still hanging back...
...acceptance, or a desire to deceive. It can, and often does, simply mean that one doesn’t care to cater to the biases of a society that assumes heterosexuality to be the default and believes that one’s otherness must be declared in one fell swoop, lest a queer be mistaken for a straight...
Ever wish there was a way to get a workout, eat less, save water, and cut through the pre-Ec 10 tray return lines in Annenberg all in one fell swoop...
...months, Harvard biology post-doctorates Nicola L. Chamberlain and Ryan I. Hill, both authors on the study, stood in an enormous cage of Heliconius butterflies, ready to swoop in and grab males as they fluttered their wings above a female in an attempt to mate...