Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gannett, however, there seems to be no thought of turning back. As if to symbolize that commitment, Neuharth announced last week that the company was moving its headquarters from Rochester, where Gannett has been based since the chain acquired its flagship Times-Union in 1918, to the USA Today building in Rosslyn. The onetime chain of small town newspapers is determinedly making itself a presence in one of the centers of national journalism...
...well-known that HCA covets a Harvard affiliation for its prestige. Aligning with Harvard would make it easier for a company like HCA to affiliate with other teaching hospitals facing similar financial pressures. And, as one of the most respected psychiatric institutions in the country. McLean would be a flagship for the company's psychiatric line, which it is aggressively expanding...
...guns on German artillery batteries atop the cliffs towering over Omaha Beach; the Nevada and three cruisers pounded nearby Utah Beach. Twelve miles offshore, thousands of infantrymen scrambled down sheets of netting into the boxlike landing craft that began chugging toward the heavily mined and barricaded shore. Aboard the flagship Augusta, General Bradley stood with ears plugged by cotton and watched through binoculars as the vanguard of the 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions waded slowly into German machine-gun fire on Omaha Beach. "The commanders who are engaged report that everything is proceeding according to plan," Churchill was to announce...
...Junior with price cuts on its $1,395 Apple He, has captured the imagination of much of the industry with its two-month-old $2,495 Macintosh computer. Since the Mac does not adhere to IBM's programming specifications, its success directly challenges the standards set by the flagship of IBM's personal-computer line, the venerable and highly popular...
...bare-chested men and barely dressed women. The Houston Chronicle (circ. 459,000), perhaps shaken by the prospect of a rivalry in what has been one of the U.S.'s least competitive two-newspaper cities, sent a reporter to Toronto to survey the Canadian group's flagship Sun. His report on what might come to Texas ran under the headline A SHOCKING CHANGE...