Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While I was engaged with the Agnew resignation, Dinitz informed Major General Brent Scowcroft, who had replaced Haig as my deputy, that Israel's promised replacement equipment exceeded the capacity of the seven jets of the El Al air fleet. It was decided that Israel should be permitted to employ private air charter companies. That turned out to be a fiasco. No charter company was eager to court an Arab boycott or to risk its planes. The Defense Department could have brought pressure on the charter companies, but felt no urgency because it estimated that Israel still had stocks...
...thought about it as far back as his undergraduate days at Yale in the mid-1960s. In a paper for an economics course, Smith proposed the idea of an airline that would carry small packages overnight from city to city. The airline would have its own aircraft and truck fleet, operate independently of the commercial schedules and routes and deliver its cargo anywhere in the U.S. between dusk and dawn...
...Skytrain was so popular and profitable that in the past two years Laker, who owns 90% of the airline, borrowed $359 million to expand his fleet of DC-10s and Airbus A300s with the intention of adding new services between European and Asian capitals. Then trouble struck. Fuel prices surged, recession in the U.S. and Europe cut into passenger traffic, and the rise of the dollar's value against the pound upset Laker's balance sheet. Much of his revenue was in pounds, but he had to make debt payments in dollars...
...attack was carefully timed and perfectly executed. Members of the Marxist-dominated Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front last week slipped under cover of darkness among the open hangars at El Salvador's heavily guarded Ilopango military airport. They placed explosive charges around some of the country's fleet of venerable fighter aircraft and 14 U.S.-built UH-1H "Huey" helicopters and then escaped undetected. At 1:30 a.m., the bombs went off and parts of the airport became an inferno...
...MOST EXPERIENCED Broadway hoofers might think twice before dancing alongside the larger-than-life screen images of Fred and Ginger in the lovely final dance sequence of Follow the Fleet. For the competent but mediocre Steve Martin and the Less-than-competent Bernadette Peters (also mediocre) to try it is simply ridiculous. (The dance pyrotechnics are best left to Christopher Walken, who steals the film's best scene--and unfortunately his only one--while executing an elegant strip tease on top of a barroom pool table...