Word: approached
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COVE NECK N.Y.--A Colombian Boeing 707 with more than 140 people aboard crashed in fog and rain last night while on approach to Kennedy International Airport, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens, authorities said...
...plane had missed one approach to Kennedy and gone around a second time, according to the FAA's Bergen. CNN reported that the plane ran out of fuel before it crashed...
...computer and tape recorder and video. The printed book is primarily a tool for adults. The new tools are for children; they fit the way children learn best. We now know how to make the accumulated wisdom of the human race relevant again. We should know that the old approach to education is theoretical and unsound. We still believe that teaching and learning are two sides of the same coin, but we ought to realize that they are not: one learns a subject, and one teaches a person. The process is increasingly going to shift to self-teaching...
...much effort was required to overcome the inertia of the Reagan years. Congress found every Reagan AIDS budget inadequate and increased funding year after year. The AIDS political machine is running as efficiently as ever, and any modification of the nation's AIDS response will require a more dispassionate approach among activists...
...Cousteau's specials to more overtly polemical TV movies like Incident at Dark River. "We never said we were going to be totally balanced," notes Turner. Still, when compared with timid network programming and a PBS schedule that has been hamstrung by conservative corporate underwriters, Turner's up-front approach is refreshing...