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...make it 57 sec. by the fourth mark. But on the fifth leg, a 4.5-mile run with the wind dead astern, the lead and the Cup changed hands. Playing the wind shifts, Conner moved to the left and sailed into a patch of dead air. With sails almost slack, Liberty jibed back, but the Aussie superboat picked up two shifts of friendly wind and rounded the fifth mark with a 21-sec. lead. Conner battled desperately to recover on the last, upwind leg, going through 47 grueling tacks. Said the American skipper: "We kept the pressure on them...
...market for domestic wines, it showed no signs of cutting into the lead of durable E. & J. Gallo Winery, which commands 27.7%. Privately held Gallo was reducing prices and boosting advertising to maintain its market share. Making matters worse for Coca-Cola, demand for wine was slack during all of last year and the first quarter of this year. While Coca-Cola earns a return of 10% to 15% on soft drinks and about 10% on Columbia Pictures, the return on its wine business was below...
...mainly by heavy Government borrowing to finance huge budget deficits, which could reach $220 billion this year, rather than by the Federal Reserve's attempt to slow economic growth. The Treasury tapped credit markets for $41.5 billion during the second quarter, an unprecedented amount in a normally slack period. The Treasury borrowed just $11.7 billion in the second quarter...
...trial of Claus von Bülow for the attempted killing of his wife Sunny transformed family griefs into a Roman circus, and Journalist William Wright adopts a barker's tone in his recollection of the slack, tedious life of the idle rich. (Sunny rose at 11, rarely left the house except to go shopping, and employed eleven gardeners to manicure eleven acres.) He deftly records the countless lies and petty sins of the accused murderer, starting with the facts that Claus was neither a von nor a Bülow (his father, Svend Borberg, was a convicted...
...Harvard's dominance in collegiate crew, a position which has been challenged in recent years by Yale. "Most of the team realized we would have to do something different this year if we were going to have a good season." Rogers says, adding. "Harvard crews can't afford to slack off anymore to win you need to row your absolute best because of the new competition...