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Furthermore, the power play allows the fleet Crimson to avoid brawling with bigger and stronger teams and stick to its skating game...
Americans learned, Yankelovich suggests, that they cannot solve every problem by throwing money at it, that they cannot bend the world to their will merely by sending out the fleet. But, says Yankelovich, "the defeatism is gone. There is a reassertion of the familiar kinds of American optimism and can-do spirit--in many ways more realistic than...
...nation's largest package shipper is still UPS (estimated 1983 sales: $6 billion), which has been dubbed the Brown Giant for its fleet of 62,000 chocolate-colored trucks. UPS, which started in Seattle in 1907 with six messengers and two bicycles, last year delivered 1.8 billion parcels, twice as many as the U.S. Postal Service. UPS got into overnight service in September 1982, promising arrival by 3 p.m. the next day at prices lower than Federal's. Now UPS delivers by noon, but Federal has moved up its arrival time by 90 minutes...
When Rear Admiral John Byng in 1756 failed to repel a French siege of the English naval outpost on Minorca, his superiors were at least partly to blame since they had given the officer an undersized fleet. Nonetheless, Byng was executed for neglect of duty, which prompted Voltaire to observe that among the British "it is good to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others...
...Brian Wilson and Tony Asher's Beach Boys classic God Only Knows, on which Bowie starts out sounding like Bing Crosby crooning from deep inside Plato's cave. But underneath all the precision production and the surgically assured musicianship are messages of lyrical turbulence, full of fleet, elusive imagery that hangs in the air like a haunting. As the album's last song, Dancing with the Big Boys, reminds us, "Where there's trouble there's poetry." On Tonight there is plenty of both to go around...