Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, the $300,000 is barely enough to cover the expenses that accompany a fleet of Porches. And, if you can't keep your Porsche looking sharp, it's just not the ultimate driving machine...
...takes to remain competitive can grow particularly heavy when corporate profits are low, as they have been for the past year. Even Pan American World Airways, which sold its Pacific routes to United in April for $750 million, will soon have to borrow more to acquire a new fleet of fuel-efficient jetliners. The company expects to assume more than $1 billion in obligations when it starts taking delivery of 28 European-built Airbuses...
...Soviets. During Assad's visit to Moscow two weeks ago, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev reportedly emphasized to him that the U.S.S.R. disapproves of hijacking and would like to see the Beirut crisis ended. The Soviets, who criticized the U.S. for massing a task force of its Sixth Fleet off Lebanon's shores, might have been concerned that Washington could be provoked into seeking a military solution that would embroil Syria...
...strengths is that at such moments, he has an extraordinary control of his temper. Common sense crowds out darker impulses, and after eating crow for half an hour on prime time, the President -- and the country -- mercifully moved on. Now, like his predecessor, Reagan is learning that moving the fleet and grimacing on television have little effect on a fanatic...
...radar screens, a full-scale rescue mission was carried out at the scene of the crash. Within half an hour of the plane's disappearance, centers had been set up in Britain and Ireland to coordinate a giant rescue team that included 14 helicopters, four reconnaissance planes and a fleet of more than a dozen military and merchant vessels. By early evening the workers had picked up 144 bodies and airlifted them to Cork, where Irish authorities set up a special mortuary. The possibility of anyone's surviving was remote. One rescue spotter likened the body-strewn scene...