Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggestions and ideas increased. Suddenly, admits a Carter aide, they found the President had more things he could do-more power-than he had believed. The process fed on itself. Confidence and enthusiasm grew. Iranian oil imports were ended, assets were frozen, allies badgered, the U.N. pressured, a fleet moved. Two weeks ago, the plan to get observers in to see the hostages evolved and step by step the pressure of opinion and appeal was orchestrated. The White House kept trying and finally found another haven for the Shah. There will be new twists and turns in this sad drama...
...They might be as small as a battalion, or as large as several divisions. To transport the force, the U.S. will deploy intercontinental jumbo jets capable of landing on short runways almost anywhere in the world. By 1983 the Navy will have in service the first two of a fleet of 15 new ships especially designed to carry tanks, howitzers and other heavy equipment. Loaded and ready to go, they will be positioned at key points around the world, waiting for Marines to be flown...
...Thanksgiving Day in London, officers of Trans World Airlines and Europe's Airbus Industrie smiled, bantered and made a handshake deal. TWA, the last of the major U.S. lines to order an intermediate-range jet fleet for the 1980s, indicated that it would choose the European-made Airbus A310. But then Boeing, the apparent loser, put its flaps up and accelerated. The Seattle company dispatched E.H. ("Tex") Boullioun, president of its commercial airplane operation, to TWA headquarters in Manhattan. Boullioun improved Boeing's terms and worked some blue-yonder magic...
...Boston University Law Professor William Schwartz, the holiday season got off to a fast start last week. Massachusetts authorities announced an agreement that gives him a $799,000 fee for negotiating a settlement in a dispute involving a fleet of trolley cars claimed to be defective. Because the cars kept jumping the track, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (M.B.T.A.) wanted them modified by the manufacturer, Boeing Vertol Co. In September, after a year of futile negotiations, Schwartz, a products-liability expert, was hired. Before the M.B.T.A. and Schwartz could agree what his remuneration would be, he extracted from Boeing Vertol...
...parrot climbing a tree. First came Angola, then Congo Brazzaville, then Ethiopia, and afterward the Sahara. Step by step. If they get the Sahara, the Russians will have a window on the Atlantic, as they have always wanted, and the key to the Mediterranean. The American Sixth Fleet will have to sail back home and leave these seas to the Russian fleets...