Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...initiated what he calls, a bit stuffily, "retention study groups"-personnel from selected categories who spend a week at the Pentagon to exchange grievances, then present them to Zumwalt in an hour-long discussion. So far, there have been seven such groups, ranging from submarine officers to aviators and fleet enlisted men. In most cases, the wives of the men were invited to make suggestions...
...suggestions he has heard, he has so far circulated more than 800 as "greenstripers"-official green-bordered papers calling for reaction from selected commands. Of these, 65% have been turned into "Z-grams," which are direct orders from Zumwalt to effect changes in the service. Already famous throughout the fleet, they are aimed mainly at eliminating many seemingly minor, but unsettling, irritations of military life...
...wanted to be somebody. I always wanted to do something," he said. At age 14, Vellucci began working for the Harvard Square office of Western Union, delivering telegrams throughout the Harvard community. At age 16, he went into the coal delivery business and, in two years, built up a fleet of coal trucks. In 1933, the Depression and the general conversion from coal to oil forced Vellucci out of business. Then 18 years later, he began working for the Federal government's surplus food program in East and North Cambridge. "That's when I started to learn about poor people...
This remark melted the President's heart. Nixon; who had been saber-rattling a few hours before aboard the Sixth Fleet at sea, suddenly waxed messianic about the new moral uses of American power...
Concerned that Moscow may have been emboldened by his "low posture," Nixon has been going out of his way to pronounce his determination to use U.S. power, where and when necessary. That was his message throughout his European trip, particularly on his visit to the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet. And Washington's recent full-scale resumption of arms aid to Greece was prompted by a determination to shore up NATO's southern flank against Russian pressures...