Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groused abrasively as he was overtaken by Australia II in Newport has long been quietly plotting his course for the Cup's recapture. After breaking with the N.Y.Y.C., Conner, who owns a drapery business in San Diego, raised some $15 million (mostly from corporate sponsors, including Ford, Merrill Lynch and Budweiser). Two years ago, he assembled his crew and began sailing in near secrecy off Hawaii, where wind and water duplicate the Western Australia conditions. Conner had also noted that the Fremantle Doctor, a wind so named because it relieves the almost 100 degrees temperatures onshore, increases in strength...
...often, Wills, like his subject, seems to fall victim to wide- screen rhetoric and to the appeal of marquee names: if Reagan's second wife Nancy co-starred with Van Heflin and Glenn Ford, the actors and the films are duly recorded. Meanwhile, canny observers of Reagan's presidential performance, such as Tip O'Neill or Robert Dole, are wholly absent...
...shot only 50 percent from the free throw line to Penn's 72 percent, and failed on the front end of six one-and-one's--the key miss coming from junior Barbarann Keffer with seven seconds remaining and Harvard up by one point, 75-74. Penn's Bev Ford was fouled on the rebound, and went up the court to sink both her charity shots and put the Quakers ahead to stay...
...University's announcement on October 3 included plans to sell $160 million worth of investments in 8 corporations including Exxon. The other seven--Royal Dutch Petroleum/Shell, the Chevron Corporation, Ford Motor Co., Texaco, Mobil Oil, Phelps Dodge, and Schlumberger, Inc.--retain links to South Africa. Harvard's endowment still includes approximately $367 million worth of stocks and bonds in companies with South African operations...
...SPORTSWRITER by Richard Ford. The sane and witty story of a man who interviews athletes and seeks to recapture the hope and literary promise of a time when he, too, was at the top of his form...