Word: vente
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...cabin, Yumi Ochiai, 26, an offduty JAL flight attendant, saw and heard the signs of trouble. "There was a sudden baan [a Japanese expression emulating a loud noise]," she--recalled later. "It was overhead in the rear. My ears hurt. Immediately, the inside of the cabin became white. The vent hole at the cabin crew seat opened...
...cabin had lost pressure: the white mist was caused by the rush of the cold outside air into the passenger area. The vent to which Ochiai referred was a modification made in wide-bodies after a Turkish Airlines DC-10 lost its cargo door near Paris in 1974 and the difference in pressure between the lower cargo hold and the passenger cabin buckled the floor; this disrupted flight controls and spun the DC-10 into the earth, with the loss of all 346 aboard. The vent was designed to equalize pressure in any similar occurrence...
...world oil demand could be reduced. While demand remains at current levels, these governments will get their money and very little can be done to change these governments that have no internal incentives to improve. Thus, if we want to make a real difference we should not vent our anger at oil companies but instead be examining our own lifestyles and choices...
...hotel imbroglio was playing out in Nairobi, the U.S. delegation was in Washington enjoying a White House send-off lunch of veal vol-au-vent and cantaloupe sorbet. At each place setting was a commemorative bronze medallion wrapped in white paper and pink ribbon. President Reagan's remarks to the group included a few fatherly jests about his daughter Maureen, who is to head the delegation, but his message was earnest. The "business of the conference is women, not propaganda," he reminded them...
...this I could forgive. It was only natural that people who feel hopeless in the presence of so much loss and suffering would need a way to vent. And I was an easy target. If yelling at me, a Muslim clad in a hijab (an Islamic head scarf), to “go back home” helped people deal with their loss, then by all means, let them yell until their throats got hoarse. By that time, I knew full well that I was an American. A few people yelling at me furtively before I could see their faces...