Word: croix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Together, the couple own residential property valued at $925,000 after deducting mortgages. This includes their large nine-room Tudor home in the Forest Hills section of New York City, a vacation house on New York's Fire Island and a condominium apartment on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Ferraro separately owns four lots next to their Fire Island retreat, and Zaccaro has three similar lots there. The bulk of the family wealth, however, is possessed by Zaccaro, whose holdings were estimated at $2.75 million. He owns another condo in St. Croix and one in New York...
...family endured with good humor and pride. They did not feel neglected. Though her district is mostly blue-collar, Ferraro lives in an upper-middle-class enclave in Forest Hills. Her husband's successful real estate business helps pay for a winter retreat in St. Croix and a summer house on Fire Island. For the children (Laura, 18, about to enter Brown; John Jr., 20, a student at Middlebury College, and Donna, 22, a Financial Analyst on Wall Street) there were expensive educations. A full-time housekeeper does the cooking and cleaning. When a photographer asked Ferraro to pose...
...husband live in a comfortable Tudor-style house in the genteel Forest Hills Gardens section of Queens. They also maintain a beach house on Fire Island and a winter retreat in St. Croix. A full-time housekeeper-cook relieves Ferraro of the more onerous domestic chores, but she clings ritualistically to her weekly grocery shopping. The couple's three children, ages 22, 20 and 17, attended expensive prep schools (Choate, Spence) and private colleges (Brown, Middlebury). Ferraro, who flies home from her small Washington apartment every chance she gets, is very close to her husband of 24 years. Tall...
John Waite St. Croix...
What if the warhead had been nuclear? Then, says the Pentagon soothingly, the accidental launch could never have occurred; safety procedures for nuclear-armed missiles are much more complex. Happily, St. Croix has no early warning system to alert it to a missile attack, and presumably no second-strike capability if it thinks it is being attacked. What if the errant missile had been fired across, say, the Soviet border? The Pentagon trusts no missile would ever be so unguided...