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...given specific wish lists to member states. The Germans have agreed to take the lead in putting together a consortium of European countries to lease large transport planes before Europe's own Airbus A400M can be deployed around 2009. At present, according to NATO figures, the U.S. has a fleet of 340 planes for strategic airlift; European allies own 11, and rental agreements on a further 25 are due to expire at the end of the year. Fixing the problem fell to Berlin, say NATO officials, in part because its capability needs to be bolstered: the Bundeswehr had to rent...
...convention will take place the week of July 26, 2004, and will be held in the Fleet Center, which seats 19,000. The event is expected to create around 5,000 jobs and bring 50,000 visitors to Boston...
...informed its readers that burrell has betrayed us all says [Prince] William. Why? Just maybe because these papers lost the bidding war for Burrell's story - and hell, at least the British variety, hath no fury like a tabloid scorned. What The Butler Knows became the great obsession of Fleet Street last week. Certainly Burrell does know juicy secrets about Diana. And maybe, editors dared to hope, he could be induced to uncork royal-roiling revelations that the Queen - as conspiracy theorists were convinced - had stopped the trial to suppress. The official victor was the Mirror (circ.: 2.1 million...
...will be tough to make up for mistakes in this [National] fleet,” Everett said. “And no one will be able to do it with boatspeed alone...
...didn’t have a lane in those races coming off the start,” Rodin said. “We were covered by other boats. We couldn’t be where we wanted on the course. We had to work our way up the fleet during the race...