Word: fleet
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...warplanes take off from bases across Europe--and some in the U.S.--bound for Balkan targets. The sweep of weapons is impressive. Not since World War II has the U.S. military hurled three types of heavy bombers--B-1s, B-2s and B-52s--at an enemy. The fleet of 430 allied warplanes that began this war will soon grow to more than 1,000 planes. The escalation will force the Pentagon to call up as many as 33,000 reservists...
TRADE FEDERATION BATTLESHIP Huge space fortresses designed to look like cargo hangars actually house a battle fleet; they're the direct ancestors of the Empire's Star Destroyers...
...Tasmania for stealing sheep. Only a few decades ago, it was considered a taboo Down Under to admit to convict ancestry, and early census records were destroyed by politicians and others who did not want their origins revealed. But lately it has become fashionable to be a first-fleet Australian. Likewise, in the new South Africa, nonwhite ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially advantageous. Former President Frederik Willem de Klerk, once a defender of apartheid, now admits to a Bengali-slave forebear. In the U.S., blacks and whites are cooperating in joint genealogy searches. Says...
BankBoston executive Gail Snowden could not speak because of extra work resulting from the merger of BankBoston and Fleet Bank, according to Keith E. Bernard '99, the president of the Black Men's Forum (BMF), the event's sponsor...
...only trap Harvard falls into is that it sometimes is a little lax on defense, assured that its fleet skating and power will compensate for any positional lapses...