They tell me that's the first time a U.S. Navy admiral has had that opportunity and was able to watch the crew go through their paces, and more importantly to talk to the leaders to see what they had on their minds.

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The Coast Guard C-130 aircraft crew maintained watch over the boaters and vectored in the Heijin and Tanais Leader to their position.

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He was forced to withdraw from the coxless four when he sustained a stress fracture of the rib, leaving him with a deflated lung, and could only watch on as the crew claimed gold without him.

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Small children sometimes stop to talk to the crew and watch them work, especially if the hopper blade is making a lot of grinding and crunching noises while it pulverizes something big, like a stove or a couch.

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With only a minimum of electricity generated by diesel generators to run monitors, ventilators and other medically necessary equipment, a skeleton crew has kept watch over the hospital.

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She took a few shots, placed them on the web and for the next few nights we were unable to watch the action as the crew was aware that the paparazzi was in town.

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That might explain why some of the wealthiest owners left the sailing of their yachts to hired skippers and crew, preferring to watch races from the warmth of clubhouses onshore.

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Reid is being held under a suicide watch at a detention facility in Massachusetts on a criminal complaint of interference with a flight crew.

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Obama said courageous actions by other passengers and crew members helped avert a disaster, and he outlined steps including reviews of passenger screening procedures and terrorism watch lists for air travel as a response.

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