Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Most likely, it's that there's still too little too tarmac out there for too many flights. Or it's the weather...
...That's when the public got its first good look at Kim, as dozens of reporters and photographers staked out Narita airport for a glimpse of the seldom-seen son of the Dear Leader. As he trudged across the tarmac, Kim turned out to be a pudgy man in glasses, brown vest, Rolex watch and gold rings?bearing a striking, if somewhat more modern, resemblance to Kim Jong Il. In South Korea, some suggested he looked like his grandfather Kim Il Sung...
...Bush at odds with some in Congress and the Pentagon who had no use for subtlety. "After we get our people out, we should denounce all these equivocal statements we made to spring them," a senior Navy officer griped. "And then we should bomb the damn plane on the tarmac." The White House saw that it was also still dealing with competing constituencies on the Chinese end. After 48 hours of thaw, Vice Premier Qian Qichen declared Saturday that the expressions of regret were "still unacceptable." The U.S., he said, must "apologize to the Chinese people. This...
...very tough place. But the unions could risk a certain backlash from the public - if they start staging strikes, the public could say, 'Hey, these unions are keeping us from our vacations.'" If all else fails, fed-up airline customers should hope for an election-year meltdown on the tarmac: Even the most incensed public interest group would pale, of course, in comparison to any one senator kept from even one minute of his flesh-pressing rounds by a galling airline delay...
...seeking alms. But she obviously has no experience in begging, because she's a good 10 m from the road, too far to be noticed by drivers whizzing past at 100 km/h. Passing that way a week later, I see her again, still sitting a long way from the tarmac. This time I stop. She only speaks Kutchi, the local dialect, and understands very little of my Hindi, so our conversation is hit-and-miss. We get off to a bad start. I ask her name. "Balia," she replies. Her son's name? "Balia." And her husband's? "Balia...