Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still in his vice-presidential office in the White House West Wing, George Bush met last week with three TIME correspondents to explain how the budget crunch could slow down his "compassionate" initiatives. But Bush told Washington bureau chief Strobe Talbott and White House correspondents Michael Duffy and Dan Goodgame that he is "really looking forward to" spending time on diplomacy, including "the Soviet account." Excerpts...
...airplane in flight last year even lost some of its skin. In the sky near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last week, a Boeing 737 lost something just as important: one of its two engines. Moments after takeoff, the jet's right engine somehow tore free from the wing at about 1,000 ft. and plummeted to a field below. The plane landed safely back at O'Hare, and all 32 people aboard Piedmont Flight 1480, bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped injury. Smoke was "coming out of one engine," said a passenger. "We saw it leaning, almost falling...
Senior Nick Carone is moved from defense to left wing hours before the game and comes through with the Crimson's opening goal...
Rookie C.J. Young puts the ghost of Tim Smith (his predecessor as first-line right wing) to rest by notching two goals and an assist...
...opposing side, marching beneath such catchy acronyms as FUEL (Fuel Users for Equitable Levies) and TRIP (The Road Information Program), are some unlikely fellow travelers. Among them: the American Petroleum Institute, which represents big oil companies, and Americans for Democratic Action, a left-wing organization that rates public office holders on their support for liberal issues. Both groups contend that a gas-tax increase would unfairly burden lower-income motorists because they spend a higher proportion of their income on fuel than better-off drivers do. The opponents are joined by state legislators, who fear that a higher federal levy...