Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Richard Branson and his team have avoided the ignominy of aborting their balloon flight because of Chinese territorial sensitivity, they're not home free by any stretch. The crew of the ICO Global hot-air balloon is now wafting over Tibet in search of a fast draft that will carry them swiftly eastward -- and out of Chinese airspace...
With record numbers of passengers taking to the skies and the busy holiday-travel season at hand, stressed-out travelers with less room to stretch are increasingly directing their anger at flight crews, punching an attendant, head butting a co-pilot or trying to break into the cockpit. "Passenger interference is the most pervasive security problem facing airlines," Captain Stephen Luckey of the Air Line Pilots Association testified before Congress. Though still relatively small, the number of incidents is estimated to have at least doubled in recent years. Nearly a thousand episodes took place within U.S. jurisdiction last year...
...kicked," said captain Paul Fisher. "We were trying to play with them and they just gave it to us. They were able to pick up their level of play down the stretch...
...played a fairly good game, but we just missed a lot of big shots down the stretch," said senior Tim Hill...
...poor shooting down the stretch that eventually did in the Crimson's comeback attempt...