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...custom-designed to make sailing relatively easy. With a push of a button, the commodore can weigh anchor and head for open water. Says Normand Bremner, 51, a Dallas anesthesiologist who was cruising the Grenadines last week: "Bareboat sailing is like a luxurious type of camping. You fend for yourself, do what you want, and you don't have to worry about putting up your tent at night...
...release a homing vehicle that would be guided by sensors and thrusters to a head-on collision with the missile. But as many as 20,000 rockets orbiting aboard many hundreds of satellites might be required to keep enough within range of Soviet launch sites at all times to fend off a full- scale missile onslaught...
Shark Repellent. Any measures that a company uses to fend off a would-be acquirer, or shark. Typical repellents include changes in a firm's bylaws to make it extremely difficult for an unwanted suitor to gain control. Among the most popular in recent years has been a requirement that a merger must be approved by at least 75% of the shareholders before it can take effect...
...whiz who became director of the agency in 1981. The wife of former six-term Michigan Congressman Philip Ruppe, she jockeyed for the directorship while serving as chairman of the Michigan campaign for George Bush in 1980. After President Reagan appointed her, Ruppe used her formidable Administration connections to fend off proposals to cut about 10% from the Peace Corps budget, which totals $128.6 million for the current fiscal year. She argued that the agency represented the best of American volunteerism, a virtue that Reagan has touted frequently...
...this year the President intends to ask Congress for an extra $150 million for El Salvador. Central America is expected to continue to receive a large portion of the military-aid allotment. The White House also wants Congress to nearly double the $9 million for Peru to help it fend off guerrilla insurgents. Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the Philippines, which are host to U.S. bases, get a high priority for military aid; assistance to the Philippines will jump from $45 million to a proposed $100 million to help it fight a growing rebel movement...