Word: quested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still a game of toy boats played by millionaires. But no single millionaire, no superstar skipper, can dominate alone. "You have to delegate," says Whidden. "This is a team sport and not a single man's quest for victory." He believes Conner's greatest growth since 1983 has been in his ability to get good people and allow himself to rely on them. Will his team win? Or will Parry and Murray's Kookaburra mates refuse to yield the Cup? As the racing began, most experts favored Conner, but Australian Skipper John Bertrand, who won the Cup in 1983, loyally...
...quest for ways to reduce the U.S. trade deficit, the Reagan Administration has repeatedly urged other countries to grow faster and absorb more American imports. One of the prime targets of the jawboning has been Western Europe, which last year ran up a $26.4 billion trade surplus with the U.S. But if the White House is counting on much help from the Europeans this year, it is likely to be disappointed. That was the consensus of TIME's European Board of Economists, which met in London for its semiannual review of Europe's outlook. Average growth in the gross national...
...King 1 3 DEATH QUEST, Hubbard -- 4 WHIRLWIND, Clavell 3 5 BANDITS, Leonard 6 6 NIGHT OF THE FOX, Higgins...
...season and the players on the Harvard hockey team were beginning their quest for the Ivy League, the ECAC and the NCAA championships with an aerobics class. Many of the players were thinking how much easier it is to punch a puck into a net from 40 feet out than to do a deep knee bend...
Unsatisfied with the cushy life of the modern Jewish ghetto, the brothers Zuckerman look for something new. Roth equates life in the New York City metropolitan area with impotency, and the brothers' quest is tied up with their effort to regain their potency. It seems as if circumcision, even at eight days old, leaves lasting scars...