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While the coming battle is unlikely to match the one ignited by last December's debut of bank and S and L money-market accounts, when some institutions briefly offered rates as high as 25%, the competition is likely to be fierce. Dollar-Dry Dock Savings Bank in New York is already luring investors with an annual rate of 13% on a savings instrument that the bank will convert on Oct. 1 to a one-year CD paying at least...
...divers resumed yesterday morning and the cabin cruiser's windshield broke the surface around 11:30 a.m. Shortly after noon, the boat was lifted by crane to a nearby floating dry dock...
Just past daybreak on July 27, 1981, Robert Granberg and two friends set out from his home in Staten Island, N.Y., on a fishing trip. At a dock in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., they bought bait and rented a weathered 15-foot rowboat with a small outboard engine. "I hope none of us falls overboard," one of the men laughingly told a deckhand as they headed out to sea. "None of us can swim...
...Dock denizens in Newport Beach, Calif., will probably do double takes this week when two of the Lilliputian yachts engage in a mini-America's Cup series. Both boats in the regatta are the products of Illusion 12, a San Diego-based company that has sold 72 of its $3,520 mini-12s since it began producing them under license from a British firm in April. Says Richard Seay, a partner in the firm: "The boat is called the Illusion because if you didn't see the skipper's head poking above deck, you'd think...
...professor of political science, concludes that since Viet Nam, Presidents can no longer count on uninformed loyalty: Reagan's problem is that he suffers from "uninformed skepticism and informed hostility," Yet Democratic presidential candidates are wary of this foreign policy issue, perhaps seeing themselves some day in the dock to answer, "Who lost Central America?" Tufte marvels that the Reaganites have successfully persuaded their Democratic rivals, Washington insiders and "the 50,000 people who matter" that the Reagan people "are really tuned in to America," even though, in polls measuring how well he is doing his job, Reagan consistently...