Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weirick, who was arrested at the Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin, Calif., later served at the U.S. embassy in Rome, where other members of the Marine guard must now be questioned. As more than 70 gumshoes from the Naval Investigative Service set about the numbing task of locating, grilling and polygraphing every one of the more than 200 Marines who have served at the Moscow and East European embassies in the past decade, they discovered that all but a few of the first 50 they quizzed flunked questions about fraternizing with local women...
Texaco is today seen as arrogant in its dealings with competitors, suppliers and its own station operators, some of whom have secretly enjoyed its discomfort in the Pennzoil crisis. The company's chairmen have been known for making their own decisions. James Kinnear, who has been chief executive for less than four months, may adopt a more democratic management style. But Texaco could have already paid a steep price for its autocratic tradition. It was one man -- John McKinley, Kinnear's predecessor -- who decided in 1984 to buy Getty Oil. At best, he had a good idea that was poorly...
These speedy high rollers are uppercrust DINKs, double-income, no-kids couples. They flourish in the pricier suburbs as well as in gentrified urban neighborhoods. There is no time for deep freezers or station wagons in their voracious, nonstop schedules. Many enterprising DINK couples slave for a combined 100-hour-plus workweek, a pace relieved by exotic vacations and expensive health clubs. Their hectic "time poor" life-style often forces them to schedule dinners with each other, and in some supercharged cases, even...
...August is the best time of year," said Oleg Kievsky, 50, an engineer at the Bilibino nuclear power station, the most northerly power reactor in the world. "The frosts of August kill the mosquitoes, but the weather is still beautiful. Everybody goes out camping, and we spend our days picking berries or mushrooms for the winter...
...Mexico to Harvard Square's United States. The major industry is subway construction, and those who do not labor in the bowels of the earth must chase the total dollars brought in by slumming Harvard Square Yuppies. All this is supervised by the overlords at the Central Square Police Station, an imposing fortress surrounded by an army of black and white cruisers which are used, should the occasion arise, to fill up any empty parking spaces...