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...Olympic sailor, and one of the more experienced crew members. "Our competitors are giving us a lot more respect than they would have done a year ago." The South Africans know they are loved for being different. While the other boats are sheathed in corporate logos, the sleek black hull of Shosholoza - named after an old work song from the mines - is emblazoned with bright African motifs. Nearly one-third of the sailors are nonwhite. "We want to show that South Africa is a country that can conceive of the construction of a racing machine," says Salvatore Sarno, the businessman...
...European countries, and as those ships age, the need to decommission them has expanded: almost four times as much tonnage was scrapped last year as in 1990, and that number is expected to rise another 20-25% between now and 2012. Once regulations demanding the replacement of all single-hull tankers with safer, double-hulled ships fully bite in 2010, as many as 153 of these 200,000-ton monsters will be dispatched to the ship-knackers' yard. Even pleasure boats can present a threat; among craft posing potential disposal hazards, Greenpeace lists the Pacific Princess, otherwise known...
...received by any officer or employee of any agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority of the commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of any authority established by the general court to serve a public purpose." G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth. See Hull Mun. Lighting Plant v. Massachusetts Mun. Wholesale Elec. Co., 414 Mass. 609, 614 (1993). This court has construed strictly the scope of G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth, to preclude the public disclosure of documents held by entities other than those specifically delineated in the statute. See Lambert...
...privatized everything from road maintenance to hospitals. Today short-term borrowing is well under $250 million. "Dukakis tried to bail out the sinking ship by hand," recalls Richard Larkin, managing director of Standard & Poor's municipal finance department. "Weld took the ship into dry dock and slapped a new hull...
That very year, The Crimson detailed the visit of Emmeline Pankhurst, Britain’s foremost militant suffragette, for a lecture series with other suffragists and Ivy League professors. Three years later, Harvard welcomed Jane Addams of Hull House; in 1918, Congress passed the Susan B. Anthony Bill, the first step towards enfranchisement. While ginger ale, moonlit walks, and secret sleepovers might have been fulfilling enough for the 1905 woman, The Club risked falling victim to its own conceit...