Word: bunchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America's Cup was still there on Monday morning, bolted to a table at the New York Yacht Club, which has been its home for 132 years. Its tenure had become frighteningly fragile, however. For the past fortnight a superboat and a bunch of hungry sailors from Down Under have shown that the U.S. can no longer successfully defend the knobbly silver ewer merely by putting a boat in the water. At week's end the best-of-seven series was tied 3-3 between the red-hulled American defender Liberty and Australia II. In the process...
Department chairman and yachting aficionado David Mumford seemed to be most excited about the whole affair, saying the four Aussies were a "patriotic bunch...
...White County, which includes the Chattahoochee. A motion for a similar order was denied in London, Ky., near the Daniel Boone National Forest, where the DEA began spraying Friday. Republican Congressman Harold Rogers, in whose district the spraying took place, called it "a tragically silly operation run by a bunch of incompetents." Republican Governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee also voiced opposition to scheduled paraquat spraying in his state. For his part, DEA acting Administrator Francis Mullen seemed to be fudging on how many states can expect to be doused by paraquat from the air. Said he: "It could reach...
...absolutely appalling to me that people now would say to us, 'Don't do it.' " Agrees T. Willard Fair, president of the Urban League of Miami: "The timing is absolutely correct. We have to run and run and run until we win. If black folks waited until a bunch of white folks were ready, we would never...
...dream up a simple remedy," Verba added saying of the conference however, that "It does strike me as bringing together a bunch of heavyweights who could have an impact...