Word: speedboats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier this month to drill for oil and gas, Deichen was made president. Now, at 28, he is getting a salary and bonuses that may hit $75,000, plus handsome stock options. He still skips off occasionally for long weekends in Florida, where he keeps his 30-ft. speedboat...
...party state. With more than-$3 million at their disposal, the Republicans are outspending the Democrats 2 to 1. Complains Carter's Texas campaign director, Robert Beckel: "When you've got that kind of money, you could organize Argentina. I kind of feel like a speedboat up against the Nimitz...
George Bush, who came closer than anyone else to catching Reagan, retreated quickly after his campaign to his summer home in Maine. There he revved up his 270-h.p. speedboat and raced over the waves at 40-knot speeds, as if fleeing the memory of his defeat. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Douglas Brew, Bush admitted: "I'm still a little grumpy. I just don't want to talk about it yet. It's too soon. I'm sorting out what the hell I'll do with my life...
...three prep schools, Mike became a good enough football player to be offered an athletic scholarship at Arizona State, but he turned it down ("I played the game for fun"), tried a few courses at the University of Southern California, then took up speedboat racing. A crack-up a few years later tore his back muscles, dislocated both hips and persuaded him to try another vocation. His father, newly elected Governor, was concerned. "Dad kept asking me, 'What's your future going to be?' " he recalls. "I'd tell him, 'I'm a late...