Word: skippered
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This apparent social event is actually another one of Harvard's successful athletic teams. All-American Jim Bowers, team captain and skipper of the first boat for the coed team, expects the squad to be ranked in the top 15 in the nation, after having dropped out of the rankings last season...
Taking command when sea trials get under way next week will be Michael Stalzer. He used to alternate with former skipper Joseph Hazelwood. The ship's new assignment has nothing to do with blotting out memories of the spill, explained Gus Elmer, president of Exxon Shipping Co. Production from Alaskan oil fields continues to decline, and there is no longer any need for the 987- ft. tanker on the West Coast...
...keep going out there and battle. We've got to believe that we can win." But the most striking thing about managers is their preternatural awareness that they have less job security than the East German government. "Every manager's job is in jeopardy," says Houston Astros skipper Art Howe, who is in enough jeopardy to be a contestant on the TV game show. "Managers are hired to be fired...
Already this year three managers have been asked to seek challenges elsewhere in the private sector. And just last Friday master strategist Whitey Herzog suddenly quit after eleven years as skipper of the St. Louis Cardinals. Earlier in the season Davey Johnson, who led the New York Mets to a World Championship in 1986, was terminated despite a career winning percentage of .593. Bucky Dent was the latest casualty of the mercurial reign of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who must believe that God loves Yankee managers since he made so many of them. And in Atlanta's answer...
...protest has been growing steadily. Last month 250,000 rallied in Tel Aviv to denounce the political system; this week protesters plan to hold a mass demonstration at the Knesset. Says lawyer Eliad Shraga, who has been staging a vigil outside Herzog's house in Jerusalem: "We need a skipper who will take us to the left or to the right." Otherwise, he fears, "we will reach a state of anarchy...