Word: sailboating
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...debt ($45,000) than savings and investments ($40,000). George, 69, is a construction manager and wants to retire in two years. Both he and Maria, 62, a financial-services compliance officer, rue their profligate lifestyle--for instance, they cashed in 401(k) savings to buy a $58,000 sailboat. "We lived dangerously," Maria concedes. Now the couple are scrambling to save what they can before George's current project comes to an end in two years. "My mother and father were able to live on Social Security," Maria says, deflated. "I don't think we'll be able...
Radio technology and medical know-how came together most dramatically in April 2000. Pirates had boarded the sailboat of a Dutch family off the coast of Honduras and had shot a 13-year-old boy who was aboard. His injuries were so severe that the bullet severed his spinal cord and paralyzed...
...Chinese-American immigrant who went to M.I.T. to do his graduate work, had learned to skate with his school buddies on lakes in China. Later, when we lived in New York City, he bought me a pair of skates one Christmas. He took me to Central Park's sailboat pond, and that was my first time ever on the ice. I fell in love with it--the speed, the flow, and the wind in my face...
Winthrop J-entryway: Li’l Sampson Lamberth, son of Senior Tutor Courtney Bickel Lamberth, spent Tuesday’s bath time playing with his new plastic sailboat. “Great job, sweetie!” Dr. Lamberth said. Are you playing with your boat? Can you say boat?” Young Sampson simply grinned and peed...
...couldn’t figure out how to get back to the shore. After five minutes of trying to swim back while pulling the windsurf behind me, a motor boat finally took pity on me and dragged me and my board back to the beach. Given that the sailboat was about at least three times as big as the windsurf, I decided to take advantage of what CBI called “informal instruction” rather than risking the indignity of having to be towed back to the dock...