Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Sailing team launched its spring season over the weekend with a victory worthy of champagne-bottle smashing, as it cruised past a 15-boat fleet to win the "A" and "B" divisions of the Admiral Moore Trophy on the choppy waters of Long Island Sound...
...smugglers spend heavily for good equipment, whereas "Customs," as one of them puts it, "have to go to Congress just to get an airplane." Indeed, the Feds' best material comes from what they have confiscated from smugglers. Three of Customs' aging Florida fleet of eight planes are trophies of pot busts...
...service to Marxism's egalitarian ideals. But all they can do is complain and joke. One popular story in the Soviet Union tells of Party Boss Brezhnev inviting his mother to his elegant villa in the Crimea. He shows her the lavish furnishings, his yachts, art treasures and the fleet of foreign cars he has received as gifts from visiting heads of state. After a table-groaning banquet, he asks: "Well, Mama, what do you think? Not bad for your little boy?" To which the old woman replies: "My son. it's very impressive. But what if the Communists come...
That will merely be the start. Until now, LNG has arrived in the U.S. only in the form of small shipments made to Boston's Distrigas Corp. to supplement supplies during New England's chilly winters. But from next week on, one of a fleet of nine El Paso tankers will deposit LNG at Cove Point roughly every 60 hours. There, the supercold liquid, which arrives at a temperature of 259° F. below zero, will be heated until it turns back into gas, then piped through the networks of Columbia Gas System and Pittsburgh-based Consolidated Natural...
...short-range fighter-bombers-its first warplanes from the U.S.-at a cost of $400 million; Saudi Arabia will be allowed to buy 60 of one of the world's most sophisticated fighters, the F-15, at a cost of $2.5 billion, to replace its aging fleet of British Lightning jets; and Israel will be permitted to buy 15 F-15s (in addition to 25 currently being delivered), as well as 75 of the smaller but still very advanced F-16 (total cost: $1.9 billion...