Word: fleet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moore's fleet is diverse in type as well as in personality. In addition to passenger elevators, it includes handicapped lifts, dumb waiters and freight elevators, which are divided into electric and hydraulic-powered mechanisms...
While the fleet consists of nine Holyoke Center elevators that beam passengers up at a roaring velocity of 400 feet per minute, the dinosaurs on campus include a small Claverly Hall machine that creaks and bumps along at 100 feet per minute...
This little tale tells us a good deal about the way journalists live now. It reminds us yet again of the death of the press lords -- the Hearsts, the Luces, the Lord Copper of Evelyn Waugh's barely fictional Fleet Street -- men who knew their own opinions and imposed them on the media they ran. Rupert Murdoch, buccaneer owner of Fox and much else of the world's communications business, seemed to be a throwback to those spacious days (spacious for owners). But even his empire is so segmented and authority in it so delegated that the people...
...faulty supervision. Even after 10 years of development, the early models suffer from fuel leaks, faulty wings and an inability to cross the Atlantic unrefueled with a full load of cargo. The program deserves to be scrapped, but the Air Force urgently needs replacements for its aging cargo fleet. The original order for 120 jets (price each: $380 million) may have to be cut in half because of skyrocketing costs...
Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk, in dire need of cash, has agreed to turn over his country's nuclear warheads and half-share of the Black Sea fleet to Russia. But the Ukraine parliament may try to block the deal. Ukraine owes Russia about $6 billion...