Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tall Ships came to Boston this July amidst hype and fanfare. And one Russian tall ship sailed away with a bit of Michael Berry magic on board...
...Mealtime Messiah, along with many other New England residents, responded to a plea from hungry sailors on the undersupplied tall ship Sedov. The Sedov, participating in this summer's Sail Boston festivities, found both its money and its food supply had run dangerously low as the ship arrived in Beantown...
...depends on where you stand. American manufacturers generally like a lower dollar because it slashes the cost of their products overseas and thus helps exports. For example, Ford expects the low exchange rate to boost sales of its new right-hand-drive compact, the Probe, which it plans to ship to Japan. A cheap dollar, however, increases inflation because U.S. consumers have to pay more for such foreign goods as Louis Vuitton luggage or Hermes scarves. A declining currency is also seen as a vote of no- confidence by foreign investors in a country's economy -- and in the people...
...Goree Island, a rocky outcropping in the harbor of Dakar, Senegal, stands the Slave House, through which thousands of African captives passed on their way to the New World. I inspected the holding pens where terrified men and women were imprisoned until they could be loaded aboard a slave ship bound for America, and looked out across the Atlantic through what the guide called the Door of No Return. Like every other black American who has shared the experience, I wondered if some unknown ancestor of mine had walked through this very doorway, and I could not hold back...
...with a more complex emotion: a realization of all that was lost when our unwilling ancestors made their transatlantic voyage. Our centuries in America have transformed black Americans into a Western people. The boxer Muhammad Ali, after visiting Africa, joked that he was glad "my great granddaddy caught that ship." The point is that whether or not we rejoice in the fact, our ancestors did come to America, and not many of us can ever go completely home again...