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...draws teams from the New England, Atlantic Coast, Mid-Atlantic and Southern districts, where the nation's top boats generally sail. At Nationals, weaker districts join in, lowering the overall skill level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Sailing Places Seventh | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

...whose companies dominate the stock market and owe billions to the banks. It raises the fear that, as in Japan, real estate deflation could undermine the whole fragile structure. If that happened, the tremors that shook the world's financial markets last week would seem as placid as a sail on a junk in Hong Kong harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATCHING THE ASIAN FLU | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...Titanic," the most expensive film in history, set sail Saturday in Tokyo, and by all accounts the movie's maiden voyage was more successful than that of its namesake. The (reportedly) $200-million production?s special effects drew a warm response from reviewers, although its three-hour duration and some of the minutae drew criticism. Speaking at the event, male lead Leonardo DiCaprio said the film, which opens in the U.S. in December, had been "a long journey" and had "made a man of me." The large contingent of teen-aged girls in attendance appeared to agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Titanic' Takes Tokyo | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...will take place and whether he'll actually participate is still undecided. NASA officials firmly state, however, that as long as Mir stays sound, they will proceed with plans to send astronaut David Wolf up to relieve Foale in late September. Ghost ship or not, Mir will apparently sail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PATCHING UP THE SHIP | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...which even the most robust structures can shift and settle with time. It's not that the door doesn't work perfectly well, opening and closing to let in and out characters like Johnnypateenmike, the village gossip, and Billy Claven, the eponymous hero, who wants Babbybobby the ferryman to sail him over to the next island where the great Hollywood director Robert Flaherty's documentary Man of Aran is being shot. The door works like a champ, but the slant is the first thing you notice about it--a severe, almost violent list that announces as clearly as anything said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THREE FOR THE SHOW | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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