Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Expansion in the flagship stores also failed toprevent a recent decrease in sales...
...Clancy would love it: an ungainly ship with a state-of-the-art silent propulsion system that is virtually undetectable, even at speeds up to 115 m.p.h. Last month Japan launched the prototype. Christened the YAMATO (also the name of the imperial navy's World War II flagship), the vessel is the first in the world propelled by superconducting magnets that generate a ! powerful jet of water. Such a stealth design so far exists only in the imaginations of Western engineers. The Yamato, of course, is not a warship. But if Japan wanted to build a war machine...
...that a new, 10- story annex designed by Gwathmey & Siegel detracts from the Wright building's architecture. At the same time, the Guggenheim will unveil a fully funded $5.5 million exhibition and office space in New York's SoHo district, designed by Arata Isozaki. To help pay for the flagship expansion -- and additional storage facilities -- the Guggenheim floated $54.9 million in tax- exempt bonds in 1989. Other museums issue bonds to finance projects, but typically use their endowments as collateral. The Guggenheim has an endowment of only $30 million and its loans are secured with a letter of credit from...
...Maxwell family's conglomerate is loosely organized into three clusters. The two publicly listed companies include the Mirror Group, which publishes the Daily Record, the Sunday Mail and Racing Times, as well as the Mirror newspapers. The flagship company, Maxwell Communication, controls such concerns as Macmillan books, the Official Airline Guides and P.F. Collier encyclopedias. The Robert Maxwell Group is privately held and owned 100% by the family. Its operations include the Oxford United Football Club and publications like the European, as well as stakes in newspapers in Israel, Hungary and Kenya...
...bomber pilot based on the flagship Akagi during the Pearl Harbor attack, he is now a 75-year-old businessman...