Word: fleeting
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...large, these dangers have turned out to be exaggerated. Most scientists now believe that it would take a fleet of at least 100 SSTs to produce even a minimal greenhousing effect; no more than 16 Concordes are likely to be manufactured. Future generations of SSTs will probably be designed to emit much less water vapor. As for pollution, the plane's emissions fall within generally accepted levels. The available evidence does not substantiate the fears of ozone destruction. Compared with the thousands of U.S., Soviet and West European supersonic warplanes that crisscross the skies, the tiny Concorde fleet could...
Mended Ways. But to enforce the law on the first day the Coast Guard could field only 19 ships and 17 planes-all that were available. TIME Correspondent James Shepherd, aboard one of the first-day flights, saw a Russian fleet fishing as usual-but now with U.S. license-about 80 miles off Long Island. He reported: "With their dingy, rust-splotched hulls, the eleven trawlers, floating Stakhanovites fishing for hake, looked like dungareed boilermakers next to the five pirouetting Coast Guard cutters near by. The first day passed off peaceably, as has generally been the case since the Russians...
...fleet of nine newly constructed LNG ships owned by El Paso Natural Gas Co. will begin carrying gas from Arzew, Algeria, to Cove Point, Md., and Elba Island, Ga., early next year. That gas, for which El Paso signed a contract before the Arab oil embargo, will sell in the U.S. for about $1.25 per 1,000 cu. ft., v. a top federally controlled price of $1.44 for domestic gas shipped across state lines and $2 or more for uncontrolled intrastate gas. Algerian gas bought under a postembargo agreement, however, will cost Americans...
...decided to pipe its gas instead of simply flaring it off. To get the job done, the Saudis signed a $7.5 billion contract with the Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco), which eventually intends to export gas to the U.S. Iran is sinking $6 billion into liquefaction plants and a fleet of 35 LNG carriers to ship gas to its American and European markets beginning...
...Windsorgate. That is nothing new. Though Fleet Street's influential national dailies are freighted with sex, scandal and scholarly dissertations on foreign policy, hard-digging investigative reporting is all but impossible. "Our law and our attitudes have been conditioned to defend free speech rather than free inquiry," observes Editor Harold Evans, whose exceptionally aggressive Sunday Times has repeatedly incurred government wrath in the past decade. "It is all right to utter opinion but not to publish the supporting evidence." Thus probably no British newspaper would have got away with a disclosure similar to the Washington Post's report...