Word: fleet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room for bookings to continue to grow a robust 9% to 10% a year. "Our philosophy is, 'If you build the ship, they will come,'" says Rich Steck, a spokesman for Royal Caribbean, which is spending more than $2.8 billion to add seven new liners to its 16-ship fleet by 2002. "We're banking on that heavily...
...interested in...[a] discussion of thepeace process especially because the area is sovolatile right now," Gonzalez said. "Weestablished a fleet there, which is unusual, andwe sent troops into Jordan...
Still, the recent mergers of Citicorp with Travelers, NationsBank with BankAmerica, and Bank One with First Chicago show that the push for bigness remains intense. Just about everyone expects a handful of not-quite-ready-for-prime-time banks--Mellon Bank, Wells Fargo, Norwest, Fleet Financial and others--to be bought or to find partners themselves. Meanwhile, those same banks, and many middle-size ones too, sport prices inflated by speculation. Their high stock prices give them currency to shop for smaller prey of their own. Fertile deal territory, for sure...
Amidst the flurry of 12,000 runners at yesterday's 102nd Boston Marathon, Harvard was represented not only by a fleet-footed tutor but also by two students who were running for more than the finish line...
Mahon's star attraction is its fabulous natural harbor, three miles long and big enough to shelter a whole fleet of ships. The legendary British Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, is said to have called Mahon's harbor the finest in the world. He is also said to have been so captivated by the island that he brought along Lady Emma Hamilton for a few days of relaxation in the colonial-style Golden Farm mansion that still overlooks the port. British influence lives on in a taste for gin drinking ("Lord Nelson" was one of the brands produced on the island...