Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angie is great working in traffic around the net," Shewchuk said. "She can get more rebounds than anybody I've ever seen...
...crossing at least a dozen busy air routes at 400 or 500 miles an hour from Florida to the Dakotas," says TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin. "It was an extremely dangerous situation that could have caused a terrible accident if it hadn?t been so well managed by air traffic control." National Transportation Safety Board officials began on Monday to sort through the wreckage of the crash, which occurred when the Learjet ran out of fuel and slammed into a South Dakota field. An Air Force pilot sent up to chaperone the doomed craft saw the internal windows frosted over...
...plane carrying U.S. Open champion Stewart to Dallas took off from Orlando at 9.19 a.m. but stopped responding to air traffic controllers after 9.45 a.m. That prompted them to call the Air Force, which routinely tracks out-of-control aircraft. Although such planes can be shot down if they present a threat to public safety, that option was never considered in the case of Stewart's plane. Though the Learjet is equipped with masks and other depressurization emergency equipment similar to that of an airliner, some experts believe that insidious - rather than sudden - depressurization can confuse and disorient a pilot...
...Detective Dave Dreher has already been briefed by the Webster Groves police department about the weekend. "If no crimes were committed over the weekend, no juvenile matters, nobody arrested, nobody hurt, no traffic accidents, nobody locked up that I have to go interview, then that's a good morning. We're having a good morning." His loaded Smith & Wesson, his badge and his beeper are all hidden under his brown sports jacket, but he carries the school's ubiquitous power symbol, a walkie-talkie, and it will crackle and sputter plenty before the day is safely started...
...about time that AltaVista got some serious support. The service began as a tech experiment at the former Digital, but through deals with Yahoo it established itself early on as the most thorough search index of the Web. Digital and then Compaq tried to capitalize on the Top 10 traffic by adding "stickier" features such as subject directories and free e-mail, but that only created opportunities for new index companies like Inktomi, and now Google, to service the established portals - even while the attempts at a fuller AltaVista site floundered. MORE...