Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brandishing cans of bright-colored spray paint on San Francisco's Civic Center plaza. The youngsters were not vandals, however; they were job seekers. It was the city's third annual Paint-In, and the resulting graffiti, scrawled on large white placards destined for the municipal bus fleet, beseeched Bay Area businesses to participate in Mayor Dianne Feinstein's summer jobs program, aimed at the city's approximately 15,000 out-of-school and out-of-work young people. And for one young painter, the day produced more than urban art. Tai-Li Wang, 17, author...
...still too soon to know for certain how well the Tempo and Topaz, which carry a base sticker price of $7,238, will do, but early signs are good. Hertz bought 15,200 of them for its rental fleet, the biggest single purchase it has ever made, and during the cars' first month on the market, dealers sold some 20,000 models, 50% more than the company's internal sales projections...
...aggressively than ever. In 1982, IBM had profits of $4.4 billion on sales of $34.4 billion, making it the most profitable U.S. industrial company. Says Stephen McClellan, author of an upcoming book on the computer industry: "In the 1970s, IBM was a battleship in mothballs. Today it is a fleet of killer submarines...
...Barzini observes, "nobody wears black unless he has to, and the empire has gone the ways of Nineveh and Tyre, its domination of the world is over, the awesome fleet and the tentacular intelligence service are but memories, and the sagacity of its statesmen almost (but not entirely) vanished." Nevertheless, says Barzini, the Britons realize their limitations. Helas, the French do not. They insist upon being treated as Europe's grandest military, economic, cultural and gustatory power. In fact, he notes, "foreigners have to remind themselves they are not dealing with a country that really exists, a country many...
Some 1,800 Marines and 2,200 sailors from the U.S. Atlantic Fleet descended on the resort community of Key West (pop. 24,000) last week for two days of rest and recreation. Here is one bemused observer's view of the event...