Word: flagships
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...miles offshore and 15 ft. to 140 ft. down the steeply sloping bottom lie the remains, partly enveloped in coral, of the Boussole and the Astrolabe, the flagship and companion frigate of one of France's greatest 18th century navigators, Count Jean Francois de la Perouse. Louis XVI had dispatched the aristocrat to the Pacific in 1785, hoping that his discoveries would rival those of British Explorer Captain James Cook. As Louis was led to the guillotine eight years later, he supposedly inquired, "Has there been any news of La Perouse?" Each morning 20 divers from a multinational team...
Times Mirror, which had 1985 profits of $237 million on revenues of $2.96 billion, has been on a buying spree. Two days before the Sun deal, the company said that it was buying the National Journal (circ. 5,100), a prestigious Washington weekly. Once known mainly for its flagship paper, the Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror now draws about 40% of its revenues from its East Coast operations. One star performer: Newsday (circ. 582,388), a fast-growing Long Island daily that is ambitiously expanding its distribution in New York City...
Still, the firm's flagship publication, the four-year-old USA Today, is far from being a financial success. While its circulation is a robust 1.4 million, the paper attracts little national advertising. As a result, analysts estimate, it lost $85 million before taxes last year, bringing the total since the paper was founded to some $340 million. Nonetheless, Neuharth remains confident that it can be turned around. Curley probably shares that optimism. One reason: he was USA Today's first editor...
...guilty people." Still, Lange charged last week in a letter to French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas that Paris has blocked $7 million worth of imported New Zealand lamb brains to pressure Wellington into releasing two French intelligence officers involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of the international environmental organization Greenpeace. A Greenpeace photographer was killed in the incident, which occurred while the vessel was docked in Auckland harbor last July...
...authentic-looking invitations promised two free tickets to the Washington Redskins-Cincinnati Bengals football game. The recipients had only to show up for a pregame brunch at the Washington Convention Center. A wary reader, though, might have noticed that the sponsor, "Flagship International Sports Television, Inc.," had the same initials as the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team (FIST) of the U.S. Marshals Service. The guest list, it turned out, consisted of 3,000 Washington-area fugitives...