Word: fleetings
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...ancient mariners. "National technology is at the heart of the competition," says John Marshall, boatbuilder and head of the Partnership for America's Cup Technology. "It's been a technology contest since 1851." That year a newly designed schooner called America launched the quadrennial challenge by trouncing an entire fleet of 16 British racing yachts in a course around the Isle of Wight...
...city manager's plan, residential parking fees would help fund "commuter services." But the CCLN plans calls for those amenities to be paid for by the commuters themselves. The CCLN plan also outlines the establishment of a "paratransit system" which would supplement the MBTA buses by running a fleet of vans and buses in city neighborhoods...
Defensive stalwart and Co-Captain Bev Stickles (3-11-14 overall, 2-7-9 Ivy) joined Whyte on the All-Ivy-team first-team. All season long, her coaches and opponents credited Stickles for anchoring Harvard's blue-line, while breaking in a young fleet of defenders. Stickles received the all-star berth for the third time in her career. [See Related Story...
...superconducting magnets that generate a ! powerful jet of water. Such a stealth design so far exists only in the imaginations of Western engineers. The Yamato, of course, is not a warship. But if Japan wanted to build a war machine, it has just the technology for a formidable fleet...
Lloyd said that the splintering of the Soviet Union has created frictions between the new republics. "In a single stroke of the pen," said Lloyd, "Nikita Kruschev signed over the fleet to Ukrainian control. Back then, it didn't matter...