Word: crew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this Mother's Day weekend, the Harvard heavyweight crew squad took these words to heart, beating previously-undefeated Northeastern in choppy waters on the Charles River Saturday morning. The victory followed the crew's first defeat of the season last weekend, also in rough conditions down in Annapolis...
...despite the efforts of the actors and crew, The Ruling Class falls short. After all, packaging isn't everything, because after you've peeled off the fancy layers of the production, what's left is something you might want to send back to the store...
Noonan once wrote for Dan Rather ("Autumn has dropped like a fruit") and then became Ronald Reagan's best lyricist ("The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them"). "When she left, the | Great Communicator sang no more," said Michael Horowitz, former counsel of OMB. George Bush tapped Noonan's talents, and she came up with his best line yet: "We have earned our optimism, we have a right to our confidence, and we have much...
...design and produce the engine. Their partnership, the first of its kind, arose in 1971 from the friendship between two old soldiers: SNECMA's chairman Rene Ravaud, a crusty, one-armed hero of the French Resistance, and GE's chief enginemaker Gerhard Neumann, who had served as ground-crew chief for the Flying Tigers in China. Each company brought a key ingredient to the partnership: GE shared its high-tech engine core, while the French firm contributed financing from its government. Yet, says Jean Bilien, head of the partnership's marketing company, "for nearly five years we had an engine...
When four French officials and 17 sailors set off two weeks ago into rough Newfoundland seas aboard the trawler Croix de Lorraine, they hooked some trouble. The crew was arrested for illegally fishing in Canadian waters, and clapped in jail for 48 hours. Last week Paris recalled its Ambassador to Canada for "consultations," and passport and customs officials delayed Canadian visitors for hours at French airports...