Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...involves piloting an aircraft loaded with passengers. The Federal Aviation Administration last week said it would investigate the training procedures at Continental Airlines after one of the carrier's pilots admitted that on several flights he had made deliberate mistakes prior to takeoff -- like setting the plane's wing flaps in the wrong position and misstating the aircraft's weight -- in order to test the skills and alertness of his copilot...
...aftermath of the Milltown attack, Ulster's Catholic community was suspicious of everyone. Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, charged that the R.U.C. was in collusion with the grenade- throwing attacker, as evidenced by the low police profile around the cemetery. Officials in Belfast dismissed the charge, explaining that only a few policemen were in the area because the R.U.C. was responding to previous complaints that its presence had inflamed mourners at similar graveside ceremonies...
Whites rarely go to black neighborhoods; in fact, until recently, whites had to obtain a permit to enter a black township. The visit to Mamelodi was attacked by Ed Cain, director of the right-wing United Christian Action, as "designed to promote Marxist doctrine." But in Smith's view it was designed to promote understanding. The visitors saw a township where many of Pretoria's black workers reside in tiny four-room houses under the nighttime glare of powerful arc lights. "It gives the impression that someone is watching them day and night," said Louis Fourie, a white participant...
Eight All-New England players lead the long list of returnees. Mike Gibbs, who snared the honor while playing at scrum-half, has been switched to wing...
Eighties politics from a flower child's point of view. Dozens of brightly colored, boldly emblazoned t-shirts proclaiming slogans like these line the display window of Cambridge Natural Foods (CNF), preparing one to enter a back-to-nature world of organic farming and left-wing activism...