Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time was when yachting seemed the last preserve of the gentleman athlete. All that changed in the 1980s, as the sport bred enough litigious excess to make Horatio Hornblower reach for the Dramamine. The latest episode in the salty soap opera better known as the America's Cup series came last week, when a New York Supreme Court justice stripped the San Diego Yacht Club of the sport's most coveted prize...
...Elis' vacation package included more than just plane tickets, hotel reservations and a promise of sun. Yale edged the defending-champion Crimson in the regatta finals to pick up the Commodore Cup as a souvenir...
Still, testing is likely to spread, and many workers are, to say the least, uncomfortable with the idea. Peter Appelt, a Government employee, had to walk through an office full of people with a little cup in hand to get a promotion. "It was quite embarrassing," he says. "A nurse followed me into the men's room and stood outside the stall." He passed the test, and is now a senior inspector for the Customs Service at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...
...marriage of convenience to help Bordes escape arranged matrimony in India. However titillating, the tale had yet to live up to the epic proportions of the Profumo case. Bordes' liaisons didn't seem all that dangerous. One newspaper even labeled the Bordes affair a mere "storm in a B cup...
...lights begin their spring season defendingtheir San Diego Crew Classic crown April 1 and 2.The Crimson stunned Yale last year by 4.35seconds, snapping the Bulldogs' streak of fivestraight Commodore's Cup titles from 1982 to 1986.Yale didn't race in San Diego...