Word: fleetings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then there were the helicopter trips, the accounts at Tiffany and Cartier for Empire employees and directors, the fleet of 123 cars, the $130,000 in art and sculpture, the $62,832 in tacky silk plants, the $48,000 in computer and security systems in Cardone's home and so on. As part of an aborted redesign of his office, the imperious Cardone bought a $20,000 Chippendale desk, which was placed in storage and never used...
Russia and Ukraine have been arguing for more than a year over what to do about the powerful 350-ship Black Sea fleet of the former Soviet navy. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk reached a solution: they will split the fleet down the middle. The fleet's port in Sevastopol, Ukraine, will be shared as well. Russia also agreed officially to guarantee Ukraine's security, a condition Kravchuk has insisted on before giving up his 1,900-warhead nuclear arsenal...
...children need a new fleet to serve them," she said. "Slowly, schools are meeting all those needs...
...remember middle school? That's right, that time when a fleet of Martian zit-creatures had declared war on your face, when you had about $3,000 worth of metal clamped to your distorted teeth, and an lzod alligator adorned every article of your clothing...
...silly talk," Merwin debunks another myth--that poets can analyze their inspiration. "People get very smart and canny about it, but finally it escapes you. Isn't that great that you can never sort of get the jump on it...It's always smarter than you are." Another fleet of ambulances crosses Mt. Auburn Street...