Word: reach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time was when yachting seemed the last preserve of the gentleman athlete. All that changed in the 1980s, as the sport bred enough litigious excess to make Horatio Hornblower reach for the Dramamine. The latest episode in the salty soap opera better known as the America's Cup series came last week, when a New York Supreme Court justice stripped the San Diego Yacht Club of the sport's most coveted prize...
...WCAU should recognize its professional repsonsibility to give the public programs of quality and should make Rizzo find another way to reach what he calls the "rowhouse people, the little people." Rizzo's show amounts to little more than a bully pulpit from which this incessant politician can launch another bid for the mayor's office and embarrass Philadelphia more...
Cossu's new album, Switchback, however, tries to push the path of fusion into a new direction. As the title suggests, just as mountain switchbacks take the trail back and forth to reach a certain destination, so is Cossu's music quite repetitive; it is repetitive, however, in an effort to establish a new sound. Cossu achieves a certain originality in his use of cellos and congas in creative percussion sequences...
...Your Good Health" signs were put up at the beginning of the year to reach the students while standing in line, she says...
...superpowers of college basketball. In a city that worships winners, "Tark the Shark" Tarkanian is a patron saint, with the highest winning percentage (82%) in the sport. Along with that come use of a Cadillac, a base salary of $173,855 and a percentage of postseason revenues that could reach $80,000. (UNLV President Robert Maxson's salary is $123,500.) Tarkanian also has an endorsement contract with Nike shoes, a promotional arrangement with a Vegas nightclub and a sporting-goods store at the airport...