Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Drug Enforcement Administration believes it was in the mid-1970s that Suarez first realized the fabulous profits that could be made from coca. As an expert pilot with a fleet of planes, acquired to transport beef from his isolated ranches, he was able, so the story goes, to become a long- distance middleman between Bolivian coca growers and Colombian buyers, shipping the leaves to processing plants...
Last September the Superior Court of Justice in La Paz sentenced Suarez in absentia to 15 years in prison on drug-related charges. Catching him may not be easy, however. Earlier that year, Suarez had sent a small fleet of private planes in and out of Bolivian airports to ferry 250 guests to the wedding of his daughter Headi. Even as the revelers, some of them Bolivian dignitaries, danced through the night to the music of an orchestra flown in for the occasion, drug-enforcement agents were searching for Suarez. They had not been invited...
...Then comes puberty and the improbable onset of pinions. With the help of Lizzie, a retired whore and her adopted mother, Fevvers learns to extend her new appendages and fly. The one-eyed madam, who is nicknamed Nelson and wears the full uniform of an admiral of the fleet, witnesses the maiden voyage and exclaims: "Oh, my little one, I think you must be the pure child of the century that just now is waiting in the wings, the New Age in which no women will be bound down to the ground...
They are the entrepreneurs, and their current success can be threatening to established corporations. At a time of rapid technological change, young, fleet-footed firms with a new product or a new way of selling can quickly take over markets. Some of the most important breakthroughs in recent years in such fields as semiconductors and bioengineering have been made by smaller companies. At the same time, large firms risk losing prized employees who have caught the entrepreneurial fever. In 1975 Stephen Wozniak, then a 25-year-old designer at Hewlett-Packard, went to his boss with the idea...
...Kirkland House and the Owl Club from Milton Academy. Since graduating with a degree in economics, Stone has hit it big in the shipping industry. He is currently head of New York-based West India Shipping Inc., and before that ran States Marine Lines, which owns and operates a fleet of cargo ships...