Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thesiger did not return to his birthplace until 1930. Haile Selassie, a friend of his late father's, invited him to attend his coronation. The feudal pageantry of the occasion has been described with condescending vividness by Evelyn Waugh, then a correspondent for Fleet Street. By contrast, Thesiger notes sadly that during his absence of eleven years "the age-old splendour of Abyssinia" had been fading. The Emperor's bodyguard wore khaki; the palace secretaries were in tailcoats. Thesiger met the celebrated author of Vile Bodies and found him foppish and petulant. He refused Waugh's request to accompany...
...limousine with official license plates. In the spirit of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika (restructuring), however, that ultimate Kremlin status symbol of privilege and power will soon be a memory for thousands of bureaucrats. The Soviet Council of Ministers last week ordered the government's automobile fleet slashed by 40% in Moscow and 20% elsewhere in the country beginning July 1. Says Soviet Economist Abel Aganbegyan: "This is a way to pursue social justice. Politicians must expect to lose their privileges...
...battle for control of the seas would largely be fought underwater. The U.S. Navy wants the Seawolf to track and destroy Soviet missile submarines before they can launch their deadly cargoes, and to neutralize Soviet attack subs before they can sink the U.S.'s vital missile-launching Trident fleet...
...combined actions accounted for only 20% of the volume on Oct. 19. "You can't blame us," says Eric Seff, a managing director of Chase Investors Management, a division of Chase Manhattan Bank. In fact, much of the damage on Black Monday was done by a small group of fleet-footed traders who could see the insurers coming and rushed to get out of the market ahead of them. Says Fred Grauer, chairman of Wells Fargo's investment unit: "The preponderance of selling activity was in the hands of others...
Throughout 18 months of negotiations, Washington kept sweetening the pot, offering to reduce its fighter fleet at Spain's Torrejon Air Base outside Madrid first by 10%, and later by 20%. Each time, Spanish negotiators countered with a demand for complete withdrawal. Last week the U.S. blinked, announcing that 72 F-16 fighters will be pulled out of Spain by 1991 at the latest...