Word: harley
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What boasts six staterooms, quilted leather ceilings, a steam room, a screening room, 14 bathrooms, two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, two racing boats and, oh yes, a helicopter? (No peeking at the picture.) The answer, from the ever grand Malcolm Forbes, is a brand-new yacht he discreetly describes as "dramatically restrained, in quiet taste, nothing opulent." At least not for someone who collects million-dollar Faberge eggs for fun. Last week 107 guests, including Secretary of State George Shultz and Chief Justice Warren Burger, came aboard to admire the $5 million, 151-ft. three-decker at the Forbes magazine tycoon...
...number of students seeking admission at Brown was "consistent with past years," according to Nancy L. Harley, associate director of admissions...
Brown Associate Director of Admission Nancy Harley told the Herald that the admissions office was expecting the decline in admissions after last year's increase. The Brown early applicant pool has shown a see-saw trend in the past four years...
...fashioned tariff walls. Japan, which generally has some of the lowest import fees in the world, imposes a 15% to 20% tariff on plywood because of the political clout of its lumber industry. In 1983 the U.S. hiked its duty on large motorcycles from 4.4% to 49.4% to protect Harley-Davidson, the last American manufacturer of the big bikes...
...Harley P. Holden, curator of the Harvard University archives, said the area in which the tree stood used to be called University Minor. "It was common parlance among students at the time to say they were 'going to the mines' when they were going to use the facilities. 'Mines' was of course derived from Minor," said Holden...