Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appalled," thundered candidate Bill Clinton when he learned that George Bush would return all Haitian boat people, including political refugees fleeing for their lives, to the tender mercies of Haiti's military junta. "It is a blow to America's moral authority in defending the rights of refugees around the world." Last week President Clinton announced that he would extend the Bush approach to refugees from Cuba. It was the first time the U.S. has ever endorsed the forcible return of refugees to a communist country...
...rules, allowing him to replace a broken keel with a better model. Hours before the last semifinals race, in which he would have been eliminated in a 5-min. rout by the mostly women's team aboard Mighty Mary, Conner negotiated a deal to turn the two-boat finals into a three-boat series. In his last finals race, Conner must have cut a deal with an even higher authority: his Stars & Stripes found a mysterious breeze that allowed it to make up a seemingly insurmountable 4-min., 42-boat-length lead on the final leg to overtake Mighty Mary...
Conner also posseses a knack for compromise. When he was losing in the semifinals, he offered to merge his team with the women's team, taking their faster boat and half their crew, according to Vincent Moeyersoms, Mighty Mary's manager. The courtship was spurned. But when Conner finally won the defender's title, he wasted no time in dumping Stars & Stripes and making a deal to sail Marshall's Young America-the first time a finalist has switched boats before the last series. Conner might have coveted Mighty Mary, but the women weren't about to let him have...
...switch to Young America gave Conner's team less than a week to learn to sail the new boat, but that was less risky than sailing the sluggish Stars & Stripes against the swift Black Magic I. "Young America's deck layout is different, but we're getting used to it," said Trenkle. "It's like getting a new car and the knobs are not where you think they...
Because of the demands of design, organization and marketing, Conner leaves most of the steering of his boat these days to equally aggressive helmsman Paul Cayard. But Conner retains the title of skipper, and indeed, his strategic genius and Houdini-like survival skills are integral to the team's success. As his opponents can attest, he will do anything to prevent a recurrence of his worst nightmare: losing the Cup to Australia in 1983, which was the first time the Auld Mug had ever passed out of American hands. Should that happen this time, few doubt that Dirty Dennis will...