Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which there is a long waiting list. Sales of the least expensive $5,000 CJ. (for civilian Jeep) - a doughty, roofless runabout that is a direct descendant of the wartime model-have never been brisker. Rising gasoline prices have not deterred buyers, although industry sources say the Jeep fleet averages about 11 m.p.g. But federal authorities have directed that four-wheel-drive fleets must achieve an average 15 m.p.g. by 1981. That will be tough for AMC, which will have to spend a bundle on engineering...
...this sort of thrill is worth 125 clams to you, go ahead. If you're a bit more modest you could send her a shark tooth necklace or even a complete shark jaw for a reasonable amount. But if Poverty is your middle name, you could send out a fleet of 99 cent Knobby Urchins to the candidates on your gift parade...
...owned the Sunday Times since 1959 and the Times since 1967, has forced a showdown. Thomson executives announced last April that they would give the unions until Nov. 30 to agree to sweeping reforms in work procedures, or else the papers would close down until they relented. All of Fleet Street is watching the confrontation with keen interest: a Times victory could embolden other publishers to try curbing the labor anarchy that has racked Britain's 15 national newspapers for years...
Bolstered by profits from newly developed North Sea oil ventures, the Thomson Organization is clearly capable of withstanding a protracted closure. Although he takes pains to deny it, Company Chairman Kenneth Lord Thomson of Fleet, 55, is said to be less sentimentally attached to the papers than was his late father, Roy, the first Lord Thomson, who considered the acquisitions of the Times (est. 1785) and the Sunday Times (est. 1822) to be the pinnacle of his career...
...billion in weaponry, most of it from Britain and the U.S. The total includes 2,200 tanks, 400 jet fighters, nearly 30 naval vessels, as well as air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles. Iran, moreover, is one of the few nations in the world to have fleet of military hover craft. Although the latest crisis forced the Shah to delay or cancel $7 billion in current purchases, about $12 billion worth of equipment is in the delivery pipeline, including 160 advanced F-16 U.S. jet fighters. (Ironically, the army had not stockpiled grenades, tear gas and other weapons...