Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...International Twelves, but they really had their problems in the Juniors," he said. The Harvard skippers dropped below fifth place only once, when they were cruising along in the International twelves, but after the switch they could ifnish above the half-way mark in the ten-team fleet only once...
...Powder Puff was not pushover, as flukish winds limited the action to the three-race minimum. The 'Cliffe sailors did well, but not well enough, placing behind URI and MIT in the eight-team fleet...
...chin up at Mystic, the rest of the varsity could manage only a slightly better showing at the Ivy League championships down at Yale. In what the team considered a secondary meet, the Crimson floundered to a fourth-place finish behind the Bulldogs, Brown and a surprising Princeton fleet...
...women actually led the fleet by nine points after the first day, thanks to the slick work of captain Laura Brown and "A" Division skipper Pam Mack. But then the winds changed and the 'Cliffe sailors found themselves in the middle of the fleet, while MIT and URI floated home with the big silver...
...heroin. Ceilings and floors are removed, every rivet and every cable is inspected. Engines are constantly being monitored and overhauled. The maintenance procedures are so complicated and expensive that TWA estimates it has $300 million tied up in spare parts and equipment, enough to buy a whole airline fleet not so long...