Word: backers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very difficult to work with," says Donald C. Nagle, the department's management information systems coordinator. Nagle has been a backer of computerization for years, he says, and is currently in charge of the Durango system...
...current arrangement works against the interest of Israel: Israel builds up its military power, but it also incurs the ever-increasing wrath of the world. While the U.S. is a powerful backer, the recent histories of Vietnam and Iran suggest that even all-out American support can sometimes prove insufficient. And Israel, as so many have noted, can only lose a war once...
...International Hotel, the Early American Inn became the Australia II Inn, its Statue of Liberty decked with the Australian flag, a stuffed koala bear placed in an arm. The stock exchanges saw a surge in shares connected with any enterprise of Perth Entrepreneur Alan Bond, Australia II's backer...
...waving Aussie flags passed legions of local patriots God-blessing America and brandishing the Stars and Stripes. Despite a few ugly incidents, there was remarkably little ill will among the crowd of 10,000 on the Newport waterfront. As Australia II was guided back into her slip, Skipper Bertrand, Backer Bond and Designer Ben Lexcen led a round of hip-hip-hoorays for Conner and his men. "There will never be another like it," mused Halsey Herreshoff, Liberty's navigator. "It was the essence of sport in that one race...
...steamroller the Cup and turn it into the "America's Plate," received from Stone a mangled hubcap. "I don't think there's any other country we'd rather see have the Cup," said Stone, adding that he had already been contacted by a backer willing to take up the challenge whenever the Australians defend...