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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boozy Hazelwood leaving the bridge of the 987-ft. tanker and turning control over to an unqualified mate. SKIPPER WAS DRUNK, screamed the New York Post. "I was just trying to scrape some ice off the reef for my margarita," chortled comedian David Letterman, suggesting one of Hazelwood's "Top Ten Excuses" for the spill...
...atmosphere," complains one of his lawyers, Thomas Russo. "They make people assume that alcohol played a role in the grounding, when it didn't." Drinking has been an important part of Hazelwood's life since his college days, but it did not impede a rapid rise to the top of Exxon's seafaring ranks. Hazelwood long seemed to believe that nothing bad could befall him. As the ironic motto printed next to his picture in his college yearbook put it, "It can't happen...
Still, some analysts saw the meager sums as a symbol of the relative decline of America's economic clout. A top Administration official traveling with Bush conceded, "Sure, we could do a lot more to encourage economic reform in Eastern Europe. But we don't have the money. We are broke." Says Michael Mandelbaum, a Soviet scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations: "The foreign policy fruits of Reaganomics are that we are the world's largest debtor nation and have a budget deficit that constrains what we can spend...
...countries, underscoring that the European Community is increasingly more able and eager to help guide potential changes in the Communist bloc. "Leadership in Europe on these questions belongs to the E.C., both by right and by their record of success," said investment banker Robert Hormats, a former top State Department official...
...ballooned to 320 lbs. from a fighting trim of 217, and even today at 255 is far beefier than anyone who wants to hold the title should be. As for the recent wins, all were against unknowns or retreads who will probably never get within spitting distance of the Top Ten contenders...