Word: fleets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fleet Cantabs can put the puck by the Elis' hot rookie netminder, then the Crimson can keep their shaky hold on first place and a playoff berth...
Whispers about Macintosh have circulated for more than two years, but in the past six weeks Apple has been relentlessly thumping drums for its new machine. The company has used a fleet of tractor-trailers to transport a flashy demonstration to 1,500 dealers in six cities. It has primed its sales force, courted Wall Street analysts and tried to arrange deals for exclusive magazine coverage. Even before the machine is out, 100,000 copies of Mac-World, a magazine entirely devoted to the computer, have been printed. By the end of April, Apple will have spent $15 million promoting...
President Reagan accepted blame for the deaths of the 241 Marines blasted from their billet in Beirut last October [Jan. 9]. If Reagan is personally responsible, was President Franklin Roosevelt liable for the thousands of naval personnel lost in the sinking of the fleet at Pearl Harbor? He definitely did not think so, even though he stationed them in Hawaii. F.D.R. summarily relieved the local commanders. Without question, they were guilty of not adhering to the standing operation procedure prescribed in military doctrine. This Beirut fiasco was a "failure of command" beginning at company or higher unit level...
...Moines grain concern, has ten barges of corn and five barges of soybeans worth about $3.85 million stuck in the river. "It's going to be costly, no question about it." says Lloyd Eneix, senior vice president of Agri-Trans, which has half of its ten-boat fleet immobilized. "The whole industry is going to suffer considerably...
...trolley's triumph has inspired nostalgic visions. New York City is considering restoring trolley service as part of its redevelopment of 42nd Street. San Francisco is overhauling its emblematic fleet of cable cars...