While elected officials, party leaders and dignitaries will converge on the Fleet Center, the real power rests with the convention delegates.

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Their leverage was simple: What would the building (then called the Fleet Center, after a local bank) be without the Celtics?

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The Navy's Fleet Information Warfare Center has also launched unannounced simulated attacks on the network.

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It is worth noting that the landing craft in question, while they have not been named in any of the reporting, are very clearly not the landing craft from the Black Sea fleet that were at the center of the controversy in late June but totally different ships from the Northern Fleet.

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At another local hospital, Memorial Medical Center, a small fleet of helicopters was brought in to evacuate patients and staff after hospital officials were told "by officials on the ground to take the matter into our own hands, " said Trevor Fetter, president of Tenet HealthCare Corp.

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When they arrived, there was a fleet of school buses waiting to evacuate the center's residents whose families were unable to get there.

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At Kennedy Space Center, the home base of NASA's shuttle fleet, all employees were allowed to return to work Thursday.

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Its fleet includes a 1966 Bunker and Ellis picnic yacht, a 31-foot center counsel boat, a 24-foot keelboat, and a 14-foot centerboard sailboat.

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Less than two years later, a fleet of three 1.5 megawatt (MW) wind turbines started turning on a hill located near the center of the island.

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