Word: delta
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Other crash scenes have been more ghoulish. After 137 people died in the Aug. 2, 1985, crash of a Delta L-1011 at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, legions of lawyers sought business amid the chaos, scurrying among emergency- relief workers and hospital aides. They even tramped through the halls of Parkland Memorial Hospital handing out name cards to the families of the deceased. Top lawyers in the field, who get their cases mainly through referrals, consider such tactics lowbrow. "I have utter contempt for those who choose to get cases this way. They deserve the bad reputation they have...
Until much more testing is completed, the debate cannot answer a very basic question: Is the B-2 capable of attacking targets in the Soviet Union without being detected? The initial flight proved only that the boomerang-shaped delta wing can fly. It remains to be seen whether the sleek aerodynamic design, composite-plastics fabrication and other tricks intended to evade radar will actually work...
...stay-free programs to guests, according to the American Hotel & Motel Association. Many also provide baby-sitting services, day care and activities from cooking classes in the hotel kitchen to kite flying. Many airlines, meanwhile, allowed children to fly free last spring, and some are still offering substantial discounts. Delta hands out Mickey Mouse visors, Alaska Airlines provides pencils and slates, and Midway Airlines serves up children's meals on Frisbees...
Kevin's wife Cindy, his college sweetheart, left a good job at Delta Air Lines when the Costners began a family, which now includes Annie, 5, Lily, 2 1/2, and Joe, 1 1/2. "She's active, she's involved," Dan says of Cindy. "She doesn't want to be a Hollywood wife." The couple seem close, considering that one of them is a screen stud with a gypsy work schedule. In April, Costner took his wife, children and parents to the gala opening of the Disney/MGM Studios Theme Park...
...symbolize the fears critics have long expressed about the Strategic Defense Initiative. What fizzled was not the payload -- a satellite designed to generate Buck Rogers-style neutral-particle beams in space -- but a thoroughly conventional solid-fuel Aries booster. Coming after an aborted mission in March using a Delta launcher, the unsuccessful mission crystallized suspicion that SDI is so riddled with potential failures that it will never get off the ground...