Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...income," to differentiate it from most of the endowment, which is restricted by its donors for specific purposes. This means that even though Harvard has enough money in its endowment to, say, pay every American $20, run Eastern Airlines and give the unions lots of money, or buy a fleet of Stealth B-2 bombers, the University cannot: a) renovate the stinking bathroom in your suite, b) pay junior faculty more since they won't be getting tenure anyway, c) subsidize extracurricular or certain academic programs...
...crew bravely fought the fire and tried to save the ship," the newspaper report said, citing an interview with Capt. P. Ishchenko of the Northern Fleet. "The fight for life continued for more than five hours, but with no results...
Indeed, any notion that the election was totally controlled by the Communist bureaucracy was dispelled by the startling list of losers: the mayor of Moscow, the president and prime minister in Lithuania, the party boss in Minsk, the first deputy premier of Belorussia and the admiral of the Pacific fleet of the Soviet navy. Across the nation, almost a third of the party's 129 regional leaders lost. Estonians even had the courage to vote down the republic's KGB chief. The city party leader in Leningrad, running against an unknown 28-year-old shipyard engineer, received only...
...until Wednesday was a ragtag fleet in full operation. A team from Washington, consisting of Secretary of Transportation Samuel Skinner, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Reilly and Coast Guard Commandant Paul Yost, flew to Alaska at midweek and reported back to Bush that the cleanup was going well enough that there was no need for the Federal Government to take over. That seemed to be a polite way of saying there was no way for the feds to speed things, so Washington might as well stay out and avoid sharing the blame for what the President called a major tragedy...
...Leningrad the top five party leaders were all wiped out. Also fallen: about a third of the 129 regional party leaders, Moscow's mayor, Lithuania's top leadership, the KGB boss in Estonia, the admiral of the Pacific fleet and the general of Soviet forces in East Germany, the party boss in Kiev, and Yevgeni Brakov, the manager of Moscow's ZIL limousine factory, who had the thankless task of taking on Yeltsin...