Word: sail
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...consent of Massachusett's junior senator, John Kerry--added an 11th hour ban against the Federal Communication Commission's spending money on cross ownership hearings to an 800-page omnibus spending package passed just before Congress adjorned for the holidays. As a result, a fiesty Boston daily willing to sail against Massachusett's prevailing political tide almost certainly will lose its spark. And a mediocre New York paper, the Post, may close down, which would leave New York with one fewer paper that might one day improve--and 1300 people without jobs...
When Skipper Dennis Conner brought home that yachtsman's grail, the America's Cup, from Australia in February, his backers in the San Diego-based Sail America syndicate seemed to have landed a cargo of gold. The cachet of a home- waters defense in 1991 figured to pump $1.2 billion into San Diego...
...long as she measures no more than 90 ft. on the waterline, which just happens to be the K boat's dimension. The deed also provides that the Cup is forfeit if the challenge is not met in ten months. After a judge confirmed these conditions two weeks ago, Sail America's Thomas Ehman complained, "Fay is an opportunist who sees the chance to take a billion-dollar industry back to Auckland." Said San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor: "The ruling is un-American...
...last week the Sail America group reluctantly accepted the challenge, amid indications it would seize every rule advantage to dismast the pesky Fay. As the defender, San Diego may choose the contest's locale but will not announce it until 90 days beforehand. Tentative plans are to race the New Zealanders late next summer, then (assuming a victory and no other wild-card ^ challenges) return to using 12-meters for a San Diego regatta in 1991. Meanwhile, the San Diegans are exploring some distinctly un-America's Cuppish designs, notably a "killer mosquito" hydrofoil. They have even suggested that...
...Burchill), the teenagers at the center of this adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's novel. One day in the 1950s their mother carefully deposits them with her hometown relatives in Fingerbone, Idaho. Then, with equal punctiliousness, she pays some boys to give her car a push so that she can sail off a cliff in it. Her suicide is shot in a way that provokes the biggest laugh in Housekeeping, a movie that is not as funny as some Forsyth fans will claim, but sturdy and rich. All the girls' guardians turn...