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...America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel. In 1983 the news was not only that it was lost but that it was losable. A 132-year winning streak, the longest in all sport, was broken over the ample shoulders of San Diego Skipper Dennis Conner, the best and unlikeliest sailor in the world. He means to win it back this week...
Like two punch-drunk prizefighters who decided that enough was enough, USX and the United Steelworkers reached a tentative settlement last week of the longest steel strike in U.S. history. Steelworkers President Lynn Williams and the union's chief negotiator Jim McGeehan were all smiles as they prepared to put the agreement to a vote of the membership, but the truth was that both sides lost. The 170-day strike forced USX, formerly known as U.S. Steel, to lose $500 million in orders. Meanwhile, 22,000 union workers forfeited six months of pay. The agreement does not solve the industry...
Some of the longest, most tortured consumer stories involve home delivery. When Tony and Sandra Cantafio of Redondo Beach, Calif., bought a bed last October, they had to wait four weeks for it to arrive because of lost paperwork and other snafus. The result for Cantafio was an aching back from sleeping on the sofa. But there was another pain: to get the bed finally, Cantafio had to take an entire day off from his job as an aerospace executive because the deliverymen refused to predict what time they would arrive at his home...
Perhaps it was for the better--the Harvard men's hockey team's 4-2 loss at Yale last week. Although the loss brought an end to the longest consecutive victory streak at the start of the season in Crimson history, it still left the icemen (15-1 overall, 13-1 ECAC) far ahead of the ECAC pack...
...shattering the 2000 mark was primarily a symbolic triumph, it was still the most exhilarating achievement yet in one of the longest and strongest bull markets in U.S. history. Since the advance began in 1982, stock prices have more than doubled, raining hundreds of millions of dollars of profits on investors...