Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed a family affair. The three suspects were related: Alleged Ringleader John Walker Jr., 47; his son Michael, 22; and John's brother Arthur, 50. All were present or former Navy men, and all lived in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, the home base of the Atlantic nuclear fleet and a center of highly classified shipbuilding. While each had some access to the secrets of submarine warfare and coded communications, authorities had hoped that the ring was limited by geography and surname...
...more fuel-efficient cars. By the close of the 1985 model year, said the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act, cars should average 27.5 m.p.g., vs. the gas-guzzling 14 m.p.g. that was the norm when the law was passed. Now the September deadline looms, and only Chrysler's fleet can meet the standard. Ford's cars will average 25.9 m.p.g., GM's 25.1. Technically, the two largest carmakers could face fines of up to $400 million in the case of GM and $80 million for Ford...
...Instead, it is around $1.20, and plentiful. Ford and GM want the final standard rolled back to 26 m.p.g. Says GM Chairman Roger Smith: "We won't pay the fine." The company says that it will curtail production of larger cars that bump up the corporate fleet average if the law is not changed. Pressure is building in the Senate, though, to hold the line at 27.5 m.p.g. The Government is expected to decide this month whether to relax the standards...
...rueful tragicomedy Night and Day. But the current wave of antipress feeling in the U.S. may have spread to Britain as well. Audiences at London's National Theater, which in 1972 staged an acclaimed revival of The Front Page, are cheering now for Pravda, a coruscating, comic attack on Fleet Street that portrays reporters as timid, trivial and truckling and that describes a newspaper as "the foundry of lies." (The ironic title is Russian for "truth" and also the name of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper...
...audience is ready to withdraw its sympathy in disgust, Le Roux exposes the hypocrisies of opponents so tellingly that he becomes persuasive anew. When outraged employees confront him, his retort is blunt and seemingly unanswerable: If an unfettered press is crucial to a free society, then why have Fleet Street journalists squandered their energies on look-alike rags compounded of crime, cleavage, gossip about royalty and page upon page of sports...