Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where 25,000 migrating waterfowl have died since mid- December. Water samples from the Silva Reservoir show high concentrations of the pesticide endosulfan, though local farmers and tanneries in the area deny using the chemical. As officials search for clues, the National Water Commission patrols the reservoir in a boat equipped with a siren, and volunteers set off fireworks to scare waterfowl away. Though the water has been declared dangerous for use in homes and in some kinds of agriculture, farmers continue to irrigate their fields with it. ``We've warned them, but they say they will be dying...
Schweitzer, who collaborated with McConnell on the book, stumbled into being an intelligence operative. From his librarian's job he moved to the U.N., serving as a relief official in Indochina until 1983, when he organized a nonprofit charity to aid Vietnamese boat people. Six years later, during a trip to Hanoi to arrange a hospital visit, he asked his Vietnamese hosts on a whim if he could tour the Central Military Museum, which housed the Defense Ministry's war artifacts. The Vietnamese agreed, permitting him to browse through displays of uniforms and equipment taken from members...
Indeed, on television, for every image of a boat navigating a West Coast street or a floating bathtub full of paddling victims, there was that familiar combative California aplomb, survivors telling interviewers the good still far outweighed the bad. A father of two young boys, asked flatly why he and his family stuck around, said, "Well, we had a beautiful summer." A year ago, author Kevin Starr, responding to essentially the same question after the L.A. quake, said, "Disaster is not an enduring discomfort -- cold weather is an enduring discomfort...
...member team, of whom only 16 are allowed to sail the boat during a race, was chosen from 678 applicants after rigorous tryouts. Among them: eight Olympic athletes, two women who sailed through hurricane-force winds and icebergs in the Whitbread, a world-class weightlifter who coaches the University of Washington Huskies football team, a native Hawaiian who sailed a 60-ft. canoe using Polynesian wayfinding, an aerospace engineer, and three mothers of small children. As impressive and eclectic as the women are, however, only two are experienced in big-boat match racing. By contrast, virtually all the members...
...finishing second only to the Australians. Conner and PACT 95, both sailing slower yachts, finished far behind. "We showed them they better take us seriously," says Olympic bronze medalist Jennifer Isler. Bill Trenkle, who runs Conner's sailing operations, admits as much. "We realize with a fast boat they'll be dangerous," he says. "Women love to beat men and men love to make fun of men who are beaten by women. If we get our butt kicked by a bunch of girls, Dennis knows it would be hard to live down...