Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress was to cut off the 1973 grant of $15 million in military aid, the Greek government on its own eliminated it. Junta leaders, who have given up their American limousines in favor of Mercedes-Benzes, have blocked the U.S. Navy's plans to home-port a Sixth Fleet aircraft carrier in Greece. The Navy had already shifted other ships there, but the Greeks protested further moves. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, in a masterpiece of bureaucratese, recently said that home-port negotiations would resume when there was "greater harmony in our mutual perceptions...
...dangerous Len Rao in the discus and shotput, and the indoor GBC two mile champ, Mike Buckley in the mile and three mile. Harvard's long distance man Ric Rojas, spared heavy competition in Tuesday's Yale confrontation, will be expected to renew his season-long rivalry with the fleet-footed Buckley. This series of Rojas-Buckley match-ups began with a Rojas triumph at the wire in their first indoor mile claim last January. Since then Buckley has notched two decisive victories over Harvard's senior distance...
...Tigers possess some strength on the track, most notably a collection of fleet distance and middle-distance men. "We've got a very strong two mile relay team and a good group of long distance runners," an optimistic Princeton coach Larry Ellis said yesterday. Ellis said he felt the Tigers had a good chance if everyone performs "according to their potential...
...subsidy in 1958, a payment of some $200,000 for Latin American operations. Predicting a $374 million fuel bill for 1974 ($204 million over the 1973 total), Chief Executive William Sea well last week asked the CAB for a $194 million annual subsidy. Seawell, who last year piloted his fleet into the profit column for the first time in five years, told the CAB: "We were overwhelmed in our efforts to stay in the black." TWA, which unlike Pan Am has a far-flung network of domestic routes to supplement its international operations, has been off subsidy for 20 years...
Another large New York taxi fleet, Scull's Angels, is intent on decorating the passengers' interiors. The company will soon present patrons between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. with a free box containing orange juice, dry cereal, milk, a Styrofoam bowl and a plastic spoon, all of which could add to backseat squalor. Though Scull's fleet is owned by famed Art Collector Robert Scull, there are no plans to mellow the yellows' interiors...