Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign fishing altogether in U.S. waters. But most welcome the new law, even though the quotas also limit their catches. Already, the promise of greater return is spurring some new investment. Next year 21 new steel-hulled vessels will be added to New Bedford's 175-boat fishing fleet...
...signs of life. Hippos snort still in the muddy waters-though many have been shot out for greasy "hippoburgers" -and crocodiles abound, well fed by the bodies that get regularly dumped into the river. Ground transport is almost totally lacking. Less than 5% of Uganda's total bus fleet is operable; breakdowns are permanent because no spare parts are available...
...used to be. Some 10% of all American exports and imports pass through the waterway; if the canal was shut down, American commerce would be hurt but not disrupted in a major way. Increasingly, traffic is diverted from the canal, whose locks are too small to accommodate the growing fleet of supertankers. Since 1973, the Panama Canal has been losing money, and its deficit in the past fiscal year was $8 million...
Princeton swept all four places in the two-mile run to bury any Crimson hopes of winning the meet. Harvard distance ace Pete Fitzsimmons, suffering from a cold and lack of practice and freshman Reid Eichner, tired out from his earlier performance in the mile, couldn't catch the fleet Tigers. The Crimson could manage only 50 points to Princeton...
Fell even defends other discredited writers. He praises the work of Harold Gladwin, who speculated that wayward members of Alexander the Great's fleet populated various parts of the Pacific. Fell points out that Gladwin's book, Men Out of Asia, is even required reading in some Harvard courses. However, Stephen Williams, Peabody Professor of American Archeology and Ethnology, says that hardly means Gladwin's work is endorsed by archeologists at Harvard. The situation is roughly analogous to a Marxist economics professor including readings from Milton Friedman in his course to offer a contrast in methodology...