Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about to buy. Over the next decade, the services are due to spend $80 billion for 132 radar-invisible Stealth bombers; $37.5 billion for 750 Advanced Tactical Fighters, the new jet that is supposed to replace the Air Force F-15; and an additional $35 billion for a Navy version of a similar aircraft...
...Navy at first tried what cynics call the "Washington Monument strategy." That refers to the National Park Service practice of countering every budget cut with a proposal to reduce visiting hours at the nation's monuments -- knowing full well that Congress would never allow it. The Navy's version was to propose delaying a 4.3% military pay raise and killing both a Trident nuclear missile-firing submarine and two Los Angeles-class attack submarines, all congressional favorites. Carlucci coldly ordered the Navy to drop that ploy and instead mothball 16 aging frigates. Secretary of the Navy James Webb resigned...
Even though the Gucci family's feuds have often resembled a Florentine version of TV's Dynasty, the luxury-accessories company has managed to remain closely held since it was founded by Guccio Gucci in 1904. Alas, no longer. The company announced last week that a 47.8% stake in the corporation has been sold for an estimated $135 million. The buyer: Investcorp, a Bahrain-based investment firm owned by more than 12,000 Arab shareholders, many of whom are prominent financiers and politicians...
...goes beyond recycling oldies. Producers are trying to realchemize the sound of early '60s pop with singers too young to know the decade by anything but rumor and parental reminiscence. Tiffany, a 17-year-old singer from Norwalk, Calif., had a surprise No. 1 hit last year with her version of the Tommy James and the Shondells 1967 hit I Think We're Alone Now. Tiffany, who concertized in shopping malls to reach her public, is working on a new album, which will face heavy competition in the pube-rock field...
...Mainers of Letourneau's Used Auto Parts are not the type to be seen at L.L. Bean. They live in a town that is inappropriately named Miracle City, a collection of raw shacks and trailers hard by an automobile junkyard whose owner, Lucien Letourneau, is a down-East version of Big Daddy. Chute skillfully spot-welds an assemblage of impressive vignettes and character sketches, but she has difficulty hooking up the narrative drive...