Word: wing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...want to say it's a right wing conspiracy but it makes you wonder," she said. "I don't see the big deal [about a hand recount] if Bush is so sure of his victory...
...safety by the U.S. National Transportation and Safety Board. Over the past 20 years, the Federal Aviation Administration has improved cabin safety by limiting the size of carry-on baggage, requiring nonflammable seat coverings and mandating reliable emergency-door operation. However, safety briefings are commonly ignored by passengers, over-wing emergency hatches (the ones likely to be opened by passengers rather than flight attendants) are often dangerously difficult to open, and smaller planes (fewer than 44 seats) are still not required to meet the standards of larger ones...
...Hamas military-wing leader, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Ali, met TIME's Jamil Hamad in the early hours of Friday morning in an isolated village in the West Bank. Hamas is one of two major militant Islamic groups operating in the Palestinian territories and Israel. The other group, Islamic Jihad, has taken responsibility for last week's Jerusalem car bombing. The chain-smoking Abu Ali, in his mid-30s, described Hamas' strategy...
...peace agreement with Israel? He cannot control the Arab mobs. Armed Palestinian Authority police cannot maintain order within the Arab enclaves under their nominal authority. There is no assurance that Arafat can make good on any peace agreement that might conceivably result from another summit. Certainly, there are right-wing Israeli fanatics. But the Israeli government speaks for its people. For whom does Arafat speak? SEYMOUR I. KAWALLER Hartford, Conn...
...meantime, Bush worked like a dog, putting on a tableau of transition. He may not be President, but he played one on TV, using the Governor's mansion in Austin like the set of The West Wing, ushering his make-believe Cabinet through iron gates into meetings. He gave up his usual afternoon video games and naps for lunches with his maybe Vice President on a table set with linens and silver, evoking those famous weekly Clinton-Gore meals adjacent to the Oval Office. He jauntily shooed away photographers, claiming that his soup was getting cold, which wasn't much...