Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent testimony before Congress, I made clear that I fully supported the two aircraft carriers, which, rather than adding to the size of the fleet, will replace 1940s- and '50s-vintage ships quickly approaching the end of their service life...
Taking a cue from Corporate America, more and more people these days are shopping for cars the same way that Inkley did. For decades automobile leasing has been popular among firms anxious to protect their cash flow and capital from the kind of rapid depreciation that car-fleet ownership entails. Now individual consumers are taking up the same practice for roughly similar reasons. Last year, according to the American Automotive Leasing Association (A.A.L.A.), a lobbying group, individual customers leased nearly 2 million of the 11.4 million new cars delivered in the U.S., a record. That 17% market share compares with...
...comedy, is equally impressive as the loudmouthed charlatan Dr. Tamkin, who dispenses folk wisdom between gulps of pot roast and watermelon. Joseph Wiseman is a bit too pat as the unfeeling father, but there are finely etched cameos from Katherine Borowitz, Tony Roberts, William Hickey and, particularly, Jo Van Fleet as a dowager who defiantly stares down Tommy while her dog urinates at his feet. (Bellow himself appears in a walk-through as a hotel guest...
...both sides renewed the old battle, Lehman's successor, James Webb, pointed out that the Midway will be 50 years old by the time it can be replaced. But the highest Navy officer, Admiral William Crowe, who heads the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fired a shot across the fleet's bow by arguing that "painful choices have to be made." The admiral said he would give higher priority to such matters as "modern munitions, antisubmarine warfare and the SSN ((attack submarine)) program." That may have sounded like mutiny to the Navy, but some budgeteers on Capitol Hill were applauding...
Most of the fare in London's tabloids is designed to titillate and tickle. Officials in Dublin, however, were not amused by one story appearing last week in the Sunday People, a racy Fleet Street rag. The paper charged that for more than four years the passport officer at the Irish embassy in London had sold false Irish passports to foreigners. The price: as much as $24,000 apiece. The story further alleged, although it provided no evidence, that the official, Kevin McDonald, 37, may have sold some of the bogus documents to "Libyans, Iranians, Lebanese and others" from states...