Word: mediterranean
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...trucks it needs. The Navy now has 456 warships (down from 702 in 1972), and says it needs 600. That would provide for three new carrier battle groups, in addition to the present twelve, which would allow the U.S. to maintain a permanent presence in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean and the western Pacific...
...addressed many of the female correspondents as "young lady"-even longtime CBS White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl-and called some veteran campaign reporters by their first names. The journalists responded with unfailing politeness; Jeremiah O'Leary of the Washington Star even gently corrected the President when he said "Mediterranean" instead of "Caribbean." One correspondent did manage to break the sound barrier, but charmingly; Californian Reagan could not resist calling on a Spanish-speaking correspondent who shouted "?por favor!" Reagan left many questions unanswered, but most of the reporters accepted his explanation: "I've only been here nine days...
Antonio Vivaldi: Works for Flute and Orchestra Vol. Ill (Jean Pierre Rampal and Joseph Rampal, flutes, with I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone, director; Musical Heritage Society). Admirers of 18th century Italian music are indebted to Scimone and his group for their part in rekindling enthusiasm for the Mediterranean treasures of the period. The Rampals, of course, have been outstanding influences in the current popularity of classical flute. The mechanical clarity they bring to Vivaldi's refrains is another in a long line of Rampal victories through air power...
...geology varies greatly, rock in one place might behave in a much different way than rock does elsewhere. Also, monitoring seismic data requires networks of field stations that can automatically pipe information to central analysis points, something few countries can afford. In Italy and indeed throughout the Mediterranean region, predictions are complicated by yet another factor: the area is the meeting place of not just two plates but three or more. Italian Geophysicist Forese Wezel describes the region as "a terrible geological crossroads...
...theme of her book is "taking fish seriously," which steak-and-tater Yankees seldom do, even on the seacoasts. Americans are blessed with a biblical abundance of seafood; some 200 varieties pass through Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. They range from the eel (Anguilla rostrata), much prized by Mediterranean diners, to squid, abalone, Boston scrod, the sadly underrated pike and San Francisco Dungeness crab. American oysters-notably Lynnhavens, Bluepoints, Chincoteagues and the Pacific Olympias-are as delicious and nutritious as any that Roman emperors had shipped from England packed in snow. (Louis XI ordered his advisers to eat this...