Word: runway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...translating the look commercially, designer Ady Gluck-Frankel of Necessary Objects shows how fast the market can react, both to a source of inspiration and to the latest fashion fads. In a collection priced from $30 to $60, she goes with the runway news of just a month or two ago: vinyl; witchy holographic effects; leopard patterns; hot citrus limes, lemons and orange, the season's primary colors; and faux-naive flower prints--Liberty as interpreted by Prada...
...blitz continued, Lebanon lived out a strange dichotomy. Reconstruction continued in the midst of destruction. Israeli missile ships shelled the coastal highway between Beirut and Tyre. Yet at the end of the hair-raising high-speed dash through explosions, motorists came upon giant Caterpillars smoothing the new airport runway...
...find use of credit cards over the Internet to have been safe so far. I do my business over "secure servers" but recognize that there are limitations to all security. I have locks on my house, but it's been burglarized. I live near an airport runway, and no planes have hit my neighborhood, but they could. Most of us automobile drivers know that in some small statistical sense, we could be killed or injured in a car accident, but we keep on driving anyway...
...golf course." The weather was ugly. A thunderstorm was moving in from the northwest, winds were 25 to 30 m.p.h. Thunderstorms are a potent cocktail for pilots, a possible mixture of updrafts, downdrafts, turbulence, icing and hail all at once. "I would have taxied up the runway and headed back," says "Red" Kelso of Cheyenne, a retired pilot with 52 years of flying experience. "There's no way I would have gone up in weather like that...
...sluggish, shaky takeoff. The four-seat Cessna seemed to shudder from the moment it lifted off Runway 30, and investigators have suggested it was too heavy for the conditions at that altitude. Everyone on board must have instantly realized something was wrong. Jessica's plane was equipped with dual controls, so that Reid could immediately take over in an emergency, and presumably he did--his arms were fractured more severely than hers, suggesting he had his hands on the yoke. In such a situation, an experienced pilot might have landed the plane on the golf course...