Word: hardiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinctive white costumes and for the day he sailed off in the wrong direction at the starting line and disappeared into a fog bank. Now the old Frenchman's craft, France 3, belongs to Moviemaker Yves Rousset-Rouard, who has her back in Newport for another try. The hardiest dreamer left is Alan Bond, 45, an Australian entrepreneur from Perth, whose fourth adventure this summer will bring his tab to $9 million. Bond's boats have garnered the honor of challenging for each of the past three America's Cup series. Again this summer, of the three...
...case has been anything but fast. In fact, the Federal Government's triple-murder charges against Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald have become one of the nation's hardiest legal perennials. The saga began on a winter night at Fort Bragg, N.C., back in 1970. Military police found MacDonald's pregnant wife and two daughters bludgeoned and stabbed to death. MacDonald, then a physician for the Green Berets, lay unconscious in the duplex apartment with 17 stab wounds. He claimed that four "hippie types" had committed the brutal slayings, but Army investigators believed he had expertly stabbed himself with...
...welcome in Washington may help a bit, but the Chancellor remains very much the beleaguered leader at home. The West German economy, though still the hardiest in Europe, is showing signs of sluggishness, and the nation is expected to experience a negative growth rate in 1981. Unemployment has climbed from 825,000 to 1.1 million persons over the past year, and inflation persists at 6%-low by most Western standards but high by Bonn's. The Chancellor's approval rating in polls has dropped from 62% last year to 41.5% this year-lower than the rating accorded...