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...Lifeboat Associates. Based in Manhattan, Lifeboat (projected 1981 sales: $10 million) sells some 200 different software packages through retail stores and catalogues. The company, which publishes only programs written by freelance authors, was founded in 1977 by Anthony Gold, 35, a former Citibank officer. Among its offerings are the spelling corrector MicroSpell and the expense account helpmate T-Maker...
...year in cutbacks or facing a shutdown of the paper, which has lost $31.2 million since 1979-a third of it this year. Said Don Salvucci, chief negotiator for the pressmen's union, it was a question of "letting the ship sink or putting some people in a lifeboat." To keep the Bulletin afloat, 113 union and 73 nonunion jobs were eliminated. The 1,900 full-time employees remaining on staff are making various sacrifices, depending upon their position. Pressmen, for the most part, will no longer receive bonus pay for overtime hours. Paper handlers and composing-room workers...
...passengers and about 200 crew members, the final moments of the Prinsendam's latest cruise were all too memorable. As the ship steamed through the Gulf of Alaska on a scheduled month-long voyage from Vancouver to Singapore, fire broke out. All of the people aboard clambered into lifeboats and were rescued, but not before some of them were tossed about in lifeboats by stormy 25-ft. waves for as long as 13 hours. At week's end, eight days after the fire first broke out, the still burning hulk of the Prinsendam sank, leaving behind a lifeboat...
...cruise that Conrad had made at least 40 times. The Polymer III has not been seen since. The Coast Guard suspects no foul play, but friends and family of both men note that not only was Conrad an experienced yachtsman, but his boat was equipped with an automatically inflatable lifeboat and S O S radio beacons that would have switched on if the boat had sunk. Smugglers would find the Polymer III especially attractive because of its speed (22 knots), 3,000-mile cruising range and six-ton cargo capacity...
...wettest, most frustrating Wimbledons in memory. "Swimbledon," one London paper called it. A cartoonist depicted an umpire, safe in his chair, directing a lifeboat across a submerged Centre Court: "Miss Navratilova went down just about there!" Men's Finalist John McEnroe asked plaintively: "I wonder when it's going to snow...