Word: princess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lines have ordered an astonishing $10 billion worth of floating pleasure palaces, some of which will be the largest passenger ships ever built. The new vessels, to be delivered through 2002, will increase the number of berths a whopping 50%. Among them: the $450 million, 2,600-passenger Grand Princess, flagship of the Princess line. At a record-breaking 109,353 tons (the Titanic displaced, temporarily, 46,328 tons), Grand Princess will have 15 decks, three show lounges and the world's largest floating casino when it sails this month from Istanbul...
...sought $15 million from Mohamed Al Fayed for documents alleging that his son Dodi and Princess Diana were murdered was arrested in Vienna last week in a sting involving the FBI and the CIA, Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia said Wednesday. When authorities arrested him, the man, identified only as a 67-year-old Austrian living in the U.S., yelled threats at Al Fayed, the Kurier daily reported. Gollia said the man had contacted Al Fayed, the owner of London's Harrods department store, and offered to meet him in a hotel in Vienna for the exchange. Al Fayed...
...seen on buses rolling down the streets of New York City, but it's not exactly a line to stop traffic. Didn't the media's free ride end years ago? Haven't we all grown used to the cycle in which every big news story, from Princess Diana to Bill and Monica, is followed by the inevitable how-the-media-screwed-up mea culpas...
...Princess Diana's brother has written to the trustees of her memorial fund, asking them to wind up the charity because he believes it is degrading Diana's name, the Times of London reports. Earl Spencer "fears the fund is never going to stop, and the idea of it going on and on, making money out of the princess's name, is certainly not what she would have wanted," the Times quoted an unnamed Spencer aide as saying. The newspaper reported that Spencer has asked the nine trustees to fix a date to stop taking donations for the fund...
...Princess- E. Emy Hancock...