Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tree. First came Angola, then Congo Brazzaville, then Ethiopia, and afterward the Sahara. Step by step. If they get the Sahara, the Russians will have a window on the Atlantic, as they have always wanted, and the key to the Mediterranean. The American Sixth Fleet will have to sail back home and leave these seas to the Russian fleets...
Private bankers warn that attempts to regulate will fail. If Eurocurrency lending is regulated in London or Luxembourg, they say, it will only sail away to Singapore or Bahrain, where no controls are likely to be imposed. If the Federal Reserve restricts U.S. bank branches, borrowers will simply shift their Eurodollar business to foreign branches. Bankers also insist that these markets will be needed to lend the developing countries the $50 billion they will need over the next year to pay their oil and industrialization bills...
...best team in New England and over the past month have proved that this is no idle boast. They have won the New England Women's Team Racing Championships, the Greater Boston Dinghy Championships, the Hoyt Trophy, the prestigious MacMillan Cup and still have several important races to sail before the season is over...
When the Navy repair ship U.S.S. Vulcan set sail on a six-month Mediterranean cruise some weeks ago, it had to leave ten crew members behind in Norfolk. Reason: they were pregnant. Rejiggering assignments because of pregnancy is a fact of life these days in the armed forces. Indeed, the pregnant soldier or sailor is becoming as common as the beer-bellied sergeant. At any given time, about 12% of the 130,000 U.S. military women are with child. While some oldtimers grumble that the armed forces are turning into a giant maternity ward, officers are struggling manfully to accommodate...
...center's 20 interclub dinghies, 15 Lark sloops, and 5 Laser single-handers. Every beginner starts in the indestructible Interclubs, boats thoroughly tested for resiliency by generations of would-be Harvard sailors. The Lasers also are very tough but are more responsive to the elements and only can be sailed by one man. Finally, the hardest boat to sail, the Lark, has two sails and is Harvard's high-performance boat...