Word: fleetings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Concerned that bickering between Kiev and Moscow might degenerate into a violent conflict, the West has been pressuring both sides to come to terms peacefully. Russian President Boris Yeltsin recently took a step in that direction, announcing that Moscow had dropped its insistence that the 380-ship Black Sea Fleet, based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, was a "strategic force" that should fall under joint Commonwealth command...
Wrangling over the Black Sea force has poisoned Russian-Ukrainian relations for months, with Kiev demanding at least 30% of the fleet as the foundation for a new national navy and Moscow refusing to yield. Now, following Yeltsin's announcement, a commission will be created to decide how to divide up the fleet equitably...
Even as the Black Sea Fleet dispute heads toward resolution, larger issues continue to strain ties between the two states -- including the overall future of the Crimea and Kiev's resistance to Russia's taking the lead on economic reforms. Specially printed Ukrainian coupons, designed as a temporary currency to phase out use of the Soviet ruble, circulate freely in the republic. In Yalta's shops, cashiers give change in a random mix of coupons and rubles that leaves the buyer guessing about the value of both...
...morning after my engagement became official, radios across the country came alive with the news of the Japanese destruction of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor...
...which time the billionaire businessman may have failed miserably at presidential politics. In the meantime, most of the base tending taking place now is good politics for either a two-man or a three-man race. As a Bush official put it last week, "The question is, Are we fleet enough, are we agile enough to drop back into a two-man strategy if Perot proves to be a flash in the pan?" In that event, the White House will go to the party that does the best job of lurching back toward the center...