Word: forte
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...shipbuilding facility that will employ 1,000 and create an additional 2,000 related jobs in the community. Among Portland's winning inducements to the Bath (Me.) Iron Works company: $15 million worth of renovations and construction of piers that will be leased to the company. In Colorado, Fort Collins appears to be the victor in a three-town battle for a proposed Anheuser-Busch brewery that would create 500 jobs in the plant and 1,200 elsewhere. While the city of Pueblo offered 409 free acres of land and Greeley put together a land-and-amenities package worth...
...Fort Lauderdale...
...federal courtroom in South Bend, Ind., Franklin smiled at jurors and flashed a V-for-victory sign. They had just found him not guilty of violating the civil rights of former National Urban League President Vernon Jordan, who was wounded by rifle shots two years ago outside a Fort Wayne, Ind., hotel...
This standard-size carrier bristles with surveillance devices, many of which are disguised as everyday items that can make paranoid executives feel as invulnerable as a Fort Knox guard. A cigarette pack in the case lights up to warn that a tape recorder is present. An ordinary pen illuminates when a "bug" is located near by. A supersensitive sniffer detects hidden bombs...
...Fort DeRussy. Most of this military installation, which occupies 72 acres in Honolulu, will remain in Government hands. But the 17 acres that are for sale constitute one of the last bits of open space along Waikiki Beach, where high-rise hotels and condominiums have sprouted like goldenrod along a highway. Back in 1905, the military bought the entire 72-acre tract for $200,000. David Stockman, the President's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, values the parcel today at upwards of $220 million. There is one drawback for potential buyers: the beachfront property is not zoned...