Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sixth race, sailed in crystalline weather, there were moderate twelve-knot winds from the northwest. Bertrand lost the start again, this time by 7 sec., but soon into the first tack spotted something his opponent had not: dark patches of water, indicating a wind buildup on the left side of the course. He sailed for it, again uncovered by Conner, who said later, "We missed it." As Liberty rounded the first mark 2 min. 29 sec. behind Australia II, Gary Jobson, a winning crew member in Ted Turner's 1977 defense, exclaimed, "This is a disaster!" The flying bridge...
...tail" to make sure there was no tie, making the total bid $21.602 per share. Then at 4:20, just ten minutes ahead of a deadline set by the Treasury, a Salomon agent dropped the bid into a slot in the northwest conference room on the tenth floor at the New York Federal Reserve Bank building on Liberty St. The Chrysler bid was the highest, and by the margain Iacocca had demanded. It was just 93.40 per share more than the second highest bid of $20.668, which was made by a group headed by Goldman, Sachs...
...rebel troops during the guerrilla war that brought black rule to Zimbabwe was nothing but coldblooded. In 1978, foot soldiers of Joshua Nkomo's Patriotic Front Army fired Soviet SA-7 missiles at a Viscount airliner as it flew from Salisbury to Kariba, 175 miles to the northwest. Of the 56 aboard, 38 died in the crash. Then, after injured passengers crawled from the wreckage, the guerrillas arrived and again opened fire, killing ten of the survivors...
...Spanish supertanker Castillo de Bellver was lumbering around the Cape of Good Hope, some 75 miles northwest of Cape Town, on its way home with 250,000 tons of Persian Gulf crude oil, when at 1:30 a.m. crewmen discovered a fire near the ship's bridge. The crew attacked the blaze with foam extinguishers, but within minutes the fire was out of control. Said Captain Alfonso Civera: "The whole ship became an inferno...
...argument for such action is that BPA, a federal agency, encouraged Whoops to build the five nuclear plants. Energy Secretary Donald Hodel, who headed BPA from 1972 to 1977, accepts some of the blame. "We looked at the energy forecasts," he recalls, "and said, 'Jiminy crickets, the Northwest is going to run out of power.' " Nonetheless, he says, "the Administration strongly opposes any bailout, and I don't sense any sentiment for one in Congress." Opponents argue that using federal money to rescue Whoops would boost the already alarming budget deficit and set a precedent that could...