Word: sailboat
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...Island in the Bahamas. He is much devoted to his wife Pat and their five children. By all accounts, he lives simply, though he does indulge himself occasionally. At his private dock are moored a 60-ft. motor cruiser, a 27-ft. fishing boat, three small motorboats and a sailboat,and his yard is crammed with expensive equipment for them...
...urged Loberg to ask for the caller's position. There was no answer. Five minutes later, a high-powered fishing boat appeared on the horizon and began chasing Rig-n-Tom. The intruder veered away, however, when Loberg put his yacht under the lee of a friendly sailboat...
...Like a sailboat tossing about in a wild sea, the government's activities in the economy under capitalism have bounced from one extreme position to another. For more than a century the state had very little or no role in the overall running of the nation's business affairs. When the government did intervene, it was usually on the side of corporations, with such aid as the 19th century land grants to help the railroads build their steel path across the country. During the past generation, however, the state has become the often overpowering major-domo of the economy...
Rather possesses few of the trappings that are supposed to accompany celebrity and wealth. He has no sailboat, summer place, city town house or even a car. He keeps himself too busy to use them. Home is a comfortable six-room co-op apartment on Manhattan's East Side, furnished in a combination of modern and Early American styles. Daughter Robin, 21, attends Tufts University, where she is captain of the girls' basketball team; Son Danjack, 19, is a student at Columbia and frequently comes downtown to meet his father for lunch. Rather's schedule...