Word: feets
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Vertical Drop: 2150 feet...
Vertical Drop: 710 feet...
Vertical Drop: 1,600 feet...
...Tories against a motion of no confidence proposed by Labour leader Neil Kinnock, who had felt obliged to respond to the spectacular disarray in the Conservative camp. In an emotion-charged atmosphere, the Prime Minister lit into Kinnock with such freewheeling enthusiasm that she brought Tory M.P.s to their feet cheering; others had tears in their eyes...
Shannon approached the story from the government side, interviewing officials in Washington and heading for the Mexican border. There she flew with U.S. Customs officers as they patrolled smuggling routes and staged mock intercepts. They scouted the "slots," mountain passes where airborne smugglers fly only feet above the ground to evade radar. "Drug pilots are all a little crazy," she says. "They carry extra fuel bladders, which means they're flying a bomb. At 50 ft., graze a hill and it's all over...