Word: trimmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murray: "In the early races I was coming in every day with double vision. It's like having a saltwater hose going flat out into your face." Murray and crew now wear sunglasses, which must constantly be cleared of caked salt with squeeze bottles of fresh water. Kookaburra Mainsheet Trimmer Peter Gilmour, known as "Crash" for his aggressive tactics as Murray's starting helmsman, sometimes wears an industrial dust mask to protect his face from sunburns and windburns...
...decisive race against New Zealand in the challenger final, he planted a thought with Tactician Tom Whidden: "Do you think the feet of our jibs are strong enough in these seas?" Well, they had been all summer. Naturally, the jib exploded. At the sound of the "boom," as Mainsheet Trimmer Jon Wright recounted for TIME Correspondent John Dunn, "everyone took off." High-wire Bowman Scott Vogel scrambled to pull the bad sail down, Mastman John Barnitt hurried to help. Pitman Jay Brown kept to his halyards. Grinders, tailors and trimmers shot off in appropriate directions, joined by Whidden and Navigator...
...cutback, GM will shut down ten of its plants and partly close another, in Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Ohio, dismissing no fewer than 29,000 workers over a three-year period. GM billed the action as part of a $10 billion "construction and modernization program" designed to create a "trimmer and more competitive company." Other shutdowns, warned GM President James McDonald, are "under study...
...bear, Jack Nicklaus is surprisingly short, maybe 5 ft. 10 in. From a low of 170 lbs. last summer, too light to make the cut in either the U.S. or British Open, he has reaccumulated a paunch appropriate to a 46-year-old, while remaining considerably trimmer than the burr-headed and bulging Ohio youth who won three Masters during four mid-'60s years. Handsomely, Nicklaus won two others, along with just about everything else...
Nurse and parole agent, stenographer and highway-equipment cleaner, secretary and tree trimmer: advocates of "comparable worth" contend that the women and men in such disparate jobs require similar degrees of education, skill and responsibility, and should be paid equivalent wages. That argument was set back last week when a three-judge federal appeals court unanimously overturned the nation's first ruling in favor of comparable worth. The court decided that an employer could be ordered to use comparable-worth pay standards only in cases of proven discrimination...