Word: liner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bikini-clad women sipping vodka on an ocean liner in the Caribbean. Crates of computers being unloaded in Hong Kong harbor. A cruise ship offering three- month tours with elegant accommodations. These are not the images people conjure up when they think of the Soviet menace. But the Soviet Union's fleet of about 2,500 merchant ships, now the world's sixth largest, has been invading both cargo and cruise markets around the world, underbidding competitors by 40% and more. In the past two decades, the Soviet Union has doubled the number of its ships and tripled the tonnage...
Some nations see the Soviet practice of underbidding liner conferences, which are legally accepted price-fixing cartels, as deliberately predatory. When Britain took the Queen Elizabeth II out of commercial service to send troops to the Falkland Islands in 1982, the Soviets moved in and in two years upped their share of the British cruise market from 10% to 42%. In France, about 80% of imported oil is carried by Soviet tankers, while French ships transport less than 1%. Even the Japanese have been hurt. Since 1981, the Soviets have snatched an estimated 10% of the cargo trade between Japan...
...French mission was not the first to seek the ill-fated ocean liner. From the moment the ship plunged to the bottom, people have dreamed of salvaging the vast riches said to be on board, but the great depths and stormy waters of the North Atlantic were thought to be insurmountable obstacles. Even the advent of deep-sea sonar equipment did not initially hold forth much promise for narrowing the search. Although the Titanic is believed to have ^ gone under at 41 degrees 46 min. north and 50 degrees 14 min. west, nobody has ever been sure of the exact...
...rivals CBS's. Each week Tartikoff hosts a "Santa Barbara lunch," in which he and his staff watch the network's newest soap and discuss how it and other daytime fare can be improved. Tinker knows habits die hard among the soap watchers. "It's like turning an ocean liner around," he says...
...Titanic was her name, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner afloat. She weighed 46,328 gross tons and was 882.5 ft., roughly 3 1/2 city blocks long. Her engines, developing 55,000 h.p., could drive the Titanic at a speed of up to 25 knots. And the luxury suites (price: $4,350 for an Atlantic crossing) contained elegant furnishings, sumptuous draperies and even private promenade decks...