Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peacetime deaths in the military always seem in some degree senseless. In the case of Captain Ernie Blanchard, the U.S. Coast Guard's top spokesman, that was even truer than usual. Blanchard, it appears, died from a few offensive jokes...
Having endured a difficult season, the Radcliffe Heavies were fired up by the exciting win this weekend before the Eastern Sprints Championships, which are easily the biggest race of the season for East Coast crews before the Collegiate Nationals...
...people operating as a loose guild in agencies that waste billions of dollars in redundant services. Five organizations buy or run spy satellites, while eight process and analyze their photos. In addition to the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard have their own intelligence services. The Energy and Treasury departments, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have intelligence units as well...
...last week's $22 billion merger of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX. The new company, to be called Bell Atlantic, will have revenues of nearly $27 billion, second only to those of AT&T in the business, and will offer a wealth of data services to about 36 million East Coast customers--some 22% of all U.S. subscribers...
...week's end U.S. helicopters had ferried more than 1,000 foreigners to neighboring countries. To step up the rescue operation, the Pentagon dispatched some 4,000 troops, including Marines, from the Mediterranean to the West African coast aboard a five-ship flotilla. The mission, however, is limited to evacuating Americans and other foreigners. Liberians have no exit from the ring of hell that surrounds them...