Word: whirlybird
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...Only the Pentagon could turn a $60 million helicopter - the European-made EH-101 - into a $480 million whirlybird. The Pentagon's Defense Science Board, in a report released earlier this month, didn't mince words in assigning blame for the fiasco. "The schedule was acknowledged at the start to be high-risk and very aggressive," it said, "driven by post-9/11 global war on terror urgency." The costs started climbing as the White House informed the Pentagon and its contractors of its wish list of encrypted video, telephone and electronic capabilities that it wanted aboard the new birds...
...Athens: Pimenidis Travel tel: (30-210) 533 2419 Take a low-flying whirlybird over the new Olympic Games playing fields as well as Western civilization's nursery, at $538 per person...
...much television. As played, with some finesse, by Lee Horsley, Houston looks a little like Tom Selleck, sounds a lot like James Garner and apparently borrows his wardrobe from J.R. Ewing. Houston has all sorts of technological niceties at his fingertips, from a computer to a whirlybird. At least he has the good taste to not get caught up in the futuristic excesses of Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff), who, in Knight Rider (NBC, Fridays, 9 p.m. E.S.T), plays second banana to a talking black supercar...
...insisted on working up to her delivery date and reported two stories only hours before going into labor. In fact, the station's news director, James Thistle, had decided out of avuncular concern that Bradlee should avoid trips in the station's helicopter. Bradlee was furious and used the whirlybird until two weeks before her due date last January. After six weeks, she was back at work, balancing career and motherhood, and sharing child-care duties with a baby sitter and Husband Ben Bradlee Jr., a Boston Globe reporter. Later this year, Ben Sr., 60, married to Washington Post Reporter...
...besides, you gotta like a team that has big Wilver Stargell and his whirlybird...