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...Paris' re-entry into NATO came with a condition: that the organization "Europeanize" its command structure. Last summer Chirac insisted that the alliance's southern command in Naples, which includes the U.S. Sixth Fleet, be assigned to a European officer instead of the traditional American admiral. Washington said no way, Chirac dug in his heels, and the honeymoon was over. Suddenly the U.S. and France seemed to be butting heads all over the globe. Cases in point...
BRETT FAVRE Fit, fleet, favored. And he hails from next door to the Dome: Mississippi...
Fire Department Chief Kevin J. Fitzgerald, one of three commissioners, objected to using money as a motive. He referred his own department, which requires the car fleet to be replaced every two years and keeps three mechanics on staff, all in the name of public safety...
...father, C.Y. Tung, flamboyant founder of the Orient Overseas shipping empire, cultivated close relations with Chiang Kai-shek after Chiang's Nationalists fled the mainland for Taiwan. C.Y.'s Hong Kong-registered fleet became a valuable icon of "free China's" economic dynamism. By the time C.Y. died in 1982, however, the company was on the verge of collapse, with 24 tankers on order at a time when a global oversupply of vessels had sent shipping rates plummeting. It fell to C.H., the eldest son, to announce in August 1985 that the company could not repay $2.68 billion in debt...
...there are only two things you ask of a personal shoplifter: that his taste be good and that his feet be fleet. All other requirements are incidental. Gregory Eugene Thomas seems to have been so-so in the first category. It is in the second, however, that he really fell short...