Word: fleetings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paris' re-entry into NATO came with a condition: that the organization "Europeanize" its command structure. Last summer Chirac insisted that the alliance's southern command in Naples, which includes the U.S. Sixth Fleet, be assigned to a European officer instead of the traditional American admiral. Washington said no way, Chirac dug in his heels, and the honeymoon was over. Suddenly the U.S. and France seemed to be butting heads all over the globe. Cases in point...
Fire Department Chief Kevin J. Fitzgerald, one of three commissioners, objected to using money as a motive. He referred his own department, which requires the car fleet to be replaced every two years and keeps three mechanics on staff, all in the name of public safety...
...father, C.Y. Tung, flamboyant founder of the Orient Overseas shipping empire, cultivated close relations with Chiang Kai-shek after Chiang's Nationalists fled the mainland for Taiwan. C.Y.'s Hong Kong-registered fleet became a valuable icon of "free China's" economic dynamism. By the time C.Y. died in 1982, however, the company was on the verge of collapse, with 24 tankers on order at a time when a global oversupply of vessels had sent shipping rates plummeting. It fell to C.H., the eldest son, to announce in August 1985 that the company could not repay $2.68 billion in debt...
...there are only two things you ask of a personal shoplifter: that his taste be good and that his feet be fleet. All other requirements are incidental. Gregory Eugene Thomas seems to have been so-so in the first category. It is in the second, however, that he really fell short...
Peter M. Witt, general manager of shuttle and fleet management services, said that the total money spent on the Evening Shuttle Van Service for this fiscal year is about $220,000 for a ridership of 26,000. Surely the University could afford to pay the drivers of its two vans for a few extra hours per night in order to protect the well-being of its students. Anything less than that would be an abdication of its responsibility to keep its students safe. We urge all riders to write in with their own input to the transportation services...