Word: speedboats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Olga called, "Look back!" I turned my head and saw a man following us. Finally we came to the water. It was a small beach nestled between large rocks. There is a watchtower on the right. Two soldiers directed their binoculars at us. People in a motorboat and a speedboat ahead kick-started their engines. A frigate was mooring 100 yards away. Why a guard nearby? Is he supposed to seize me if I try to escape to Turkey? No way. I am too good a swimmer for that fatty. It's obvious: they want us to know that...
...Vice President, whose name has become a worldwide synonym for a man in over his head, faded into near invisibility as Bush dominated the headlines with his forceful leadership in Panama and the Persian Gulf. Watching the frenetic President jog and swim, angle for bonefish and gun his speedboat, few thought of him as an ordinary mortal nearing his 67th birthday...
...family retreat in Kennebunkport, Me., George Bush walked a fine line between the determined vacationer, zipping about in his fuel-guzzling speedboat, and the grim-faced Commander in Chief facing the greatest challenge of his presidency. Bush ordered the first call-up of reserves since Vietnam and approved the sale of more F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia. He declared that in the face-off with Saddam nothing less than America's "way of life" was at stake. He abandoned his earlier fastidiousness about how to describe the thousands of Western civilians, including 3,000 Americans, held by Saddam...
Going from Klein to Lauder, says industry observer Alan Mottus, "is the difference between turning around a speedboat and turning around a tanker." Carol Phillips, who virtually invented the money machine known as Clinique, notes that "she must deal with the baggage of years of company success and go through the line with a butcher knife, tailoring and trimming...