Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeat in the best-of-seven series off Newport, R.I., brought the U.S. record since 1958, when the New York Yacht Club revived the cup series with sleek 12-meter sloops, to 28 wins and only two losses. Senior Editor Timothy Foote joined the spectator fleet for the last race. His report...
...just going to pray that we won't get a big snowstorm this winter," George Teso, director of Traffic and Parking, said yesterday, adding that city police have only 40 per cent of the normal towing fleet available because of the city's decision to end its contract with Ellery...
...deregulation push has split the scheduled airlines into two warring camps. Certain carriers, notably United, whose fleet of 364 planes is the nation's largest, believe they could survive and benefit from the new competition that would come if Washington threw the airline business open to any and all who wanted to enter it. But most other lines, including Eastern, are bitterly opposed. Eastern's Borman believes opening up airline service to all comers would mean "wasteful capacity wars" that would benefit the largest, strongest carriers-like United-which could expand into new routes now denied them...
...goods, and truckers--who comprise one of the best-paid sectors of Chile's labor force--to go out on strike, virtually shutting down Chile's transportation system. And the CIA was instrumental in organizing the army officers who led the coup d'etat: the presence of a U.S. fleet off Chile's coast the morning of the coup was not accidental...
...that extends exclusive U. S. fishing rights to 200 miles off the coast Thus Massachusetts seamen no longer have to compete with better-equipped foreign trawlers for the dwindling supply of flounder, cod and haddock. Appropriately, Studds boarded the buoy tender Bittersweet for the annual blessing of the fishing fleet off New Bedford-and also to remind his audience that he had cleared the waters for them...