Word: fleetly
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...Wareham leading the team to a fifth-place finish.The co-ed squad placed ninth out of 20 teams at “The Trux,” held at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. “It’s probably the most competitive regular season regatta for fleet racing for the entire spring,” Watson said of the co-ed event.Meanwhile, some of the Crimson’s more inexperienced sailors stayed in Cambridge to compete in the Central Series One regatta. The squad finished fourth in the field of 10.ST. MARY’S WOMEN?...
...race in ninth place after righting the boat. The B division crew, after placing third and second in their first two races, did not finish. Races were suspended for the rest of the day following the squall, which damaged several of the boats, cutting down the size of the fleet to 16 for Sunday. “They did an amazing job getting one fleet together so we could race again on Sunday,” Wareham said. “Some boats had parts missing and broken masts.” The weather was more agreeable on the second...
...some 80 foreign journalists (three times the number that accompanied then Secretary of State Madeline Albright for her meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in late 2000) rolled past building after building that was unlit in the late afternoon gloom; pedestrians on the streets stared as the fleet of buses rolled into the heart of energy-starved Pyongyang. Every half kilometer or so along a 25-kilometer route into town, female traffic cops stood stiffly at attention, wearing fur-lined hats and carrying batons they could, theoretically, use to direct traffic; if, that is, there actually...
...Days earlier, Carlson said that today's U.S. Air Force "simply cannot fight and win against the fleet of airplanes that have been developed and are flying in India, China, and so forth," a claim questioned by many experts. But his view has been reinforced by the companies employing 25,000 workers in 44 states building the F-22 - the prime contractor is aerospace giant Lockheed Martin - and their allies in Congress. That is what is so insidious about these lists: once Congress gets a hold of them, they're used as pile drivers to pound extra billions into...
...British fleet set sail, Thatcher regained some of her customary fire. Her basic position was that Britain would not negotiate until the Argentines withdrew. "We have to recover those islands," she declared in a television interview. Evoking Queen Victoria's words from the "black week" of December 1899, when attacking British forces were being repulsed in the Boer War, she declaimed: "Failure? The possibilities do not exist. I'm not talking about failure. I am talking about supreme confidence in the British fleet, superlative troops, excellent equipment. We must use all our professionalism, our flair, every single bit of native...