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Word: fleets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Mee now injured, Veneet "The Fleet" Gupta and Hiroshi Andrews will anchor Harvard's 400-meter corps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Loaded With Depth | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

...make a difference is to watch what they throw away. Every year more than 220 million trees are cut down just to make U.S. newspapers, the majority of which are tossed into the trash. Americans discard enough aluminum cans each year to rebuild the entire U.S. commercial airline fleet four times over. Quite obviously, says Earth Day 1990 chairman Denis Hayes, "the answer to the solid-waste problem is not figuring out some way to compact it or to incinerate it; the answer is to reduce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Earth U.S. Agenda Consumers It's Not Easy Being Green | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...forced the first meeting to be moved to the dockside Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky, Gorbachev remarked wryly, "The first thing to do is to eliminate those ships you cannot board in this kind of weather. We will have a secret agenda in this way to disarm the Sixth Fleet." That's the whole point, but it is quicker said than it should be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Presidency: Talk of Peace, Tools of War | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

With Harvard being unable to work the ball inside to Mitchell on the trap, the Crimson players all too often watched the fleet Crusaders storm by them for some beautiful fastbreak baskets...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crusaders Trap Cagers, Capture 86-67 Victory | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

When the police fleet of ten helicopters suddenly appeared overhead at 6:30 a.m., one sentry ran to alert Escobar and others, while bodyguards opened fire with semiautomatic rifles. Escobar slipped away by running through a patch of wild cane, scuttling across a creek with planks laid over it and, finally, jumping into a speedboat and disappearing. A wide-scale ground and helicopter search failed to turn up Escobar, who is included on the U.S. Justice Department's list of the twelve most wanted Colombian drug traffickers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Wanted, but Not Found | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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