Word: hydrofoil
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...market run-up is working on the same dynamics as a hydrofoil. A small bit of news which may be good is lifting the larger market well above the chop. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
...they can watch the changing of the guard. "I'll continue to do a monologue about the topics of the day," the hydrofoil-jawed host-in-waiting says. "I enjoy doing the political stuff" -- though his old stance of ironically outraged liberalism has been tempered as he segued from guest to host. Leno will also retain that charming anachronism, the studio orchestra. Bandleader Doc Severinsen will retire, though, as will Carson's faithful retainer, Ed McMahon...
...plans are to race the New Zealanders late next summer, then (assuming a victory and no other wild-card ^ challenges) return to using 12-meters for a San Diego regatta in 1991. Meanwhile, the San Diegans are exploring some distinctly un-America's Cuppish designs, notably a "killer mosquito" hydrofoil. They have even suggested that the first defense may be moved from San Diego into the roaring trade winds off Hawaii to frustrate the New Zealander's perceived advantage...
Researching and creating a prototype of an invention is also costly, requiring a variety of individual and corporate sponsors. Nearly $100,000 was invested on the last model of the hydrofoil sailboat, for example...
Near dawn on Jan. 30, explosions rocked the Rodriguez Shipyards at Messina, Sicily. When the smoke cleared, two Palestinian-owned hydrofoil ferries were at the bottom of the harbor. Because the operator of the hydrofoils is known to be a supporter of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, police at first theorized that the sabotage was the work of an anti-Arafat group. No such luck. Israeli undercover agents made it known last week that they were responsible for the blasts...