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...serious flaw in one of its mirrors hobbles the orbiting Hubble telescope until 1993, at least, while the shuttle fleet is grounded by the second hydrogen leak in a month...
...chain, and a 50% share in Budapest General Banking and Trust. Zbigniew (Dick) Niemczycki, 43, a Warsaw-educated engineer who moved to the U.S. in 1977, has returned to Poland as an executive with SerVaas, an Indianapolis investment firm. The company's joint ventures in Poland include a fishing fleet and a home-building enterprise, as well as Hanna-Barbera's largest animation studio, where Polish artists draw the cels for Yogi Bear and Flintstones cartoons...
...years, making it one of the 20 largest thrifts in the state. But the S&L was lending money faster than it was coming in, often to projects on shaky financial footing. Meanwhile, Dixon indulged his taste for excess, notably a $22,000 gastronomic tour of Europe and a fleet of five airplanes. When federal regulators finally closed Vernon in 1987, they estimated that Dixon's extravagant ownership left taxpayers with a $1.3 billion bill, until then the largest single S&L mess...
When Soviet patrol boats seized a fleet of North Korean fishing vessels operating in the restricted northern Pacific early last month, the Soviets themselves were caught by surprise. The twelve ships flying North Korean flags in fact belonged to Japan, and most of the crewmen under arrest were Japanese...
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th century, Britain became famous for its merchant adventurers, bold entrepreneurs who sailed to the ends of the earth in search of wealth. If that wealth happened to be taken from a Spanish treasure fleet, or if there was a whiff of privateering and freebootery about their operations, that was all part of the game...