Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's spiffiest private yacht, the 282-ft. Trump Princess, "the finest piece of art on water," which once belonged to fallen fellow dealmaker Adnan Khashoggi. Cost: $29 million. The yacht contains gold-plated bathroom fixtures, a rotating sun bed and the one thing every hot yachtsman needs: a waterfall. Khashoggi, who had named the ship after his daughter Nabila, shaved $1 million off the asking price to guarantee that Trump would rename it something else; Trump, who has his own ideas about names, probably would have obliged him for nothing...
...been observed that men who make a great deal of money generally have very limited ideas about what to do with it. Trump's biggest personal expenditures have been on extravagantly luxurious residences. The builder of Trump Tower, whose first Manhattan apartment was a dingy single room overlooking a water tower, originally reserved for himself a $10 million triplex penthouse, but when he first saw yachtsman Khashoggi's pad in the nearby Olympic Tower, which was approximately the size of a Persian Gulf sheikdom, he naturally wanted one just as big or bigger. So he went back to Trump Tower...
...that turns out not to be necessary. Only two of the eight stories in The Next New World take place on tropical islands, and while perfectly fine, they are not the best things in this collection. A typical Shacochis story is still likely to have a large body of water somewhere in the vicinity, but the author is moving north and onto the mainland...
...bomber's only mistake apparently was in timing. Terrorism experts assume that a timer had been set so that the charge would explode after the flight cleared the British Isles and was over water on its course to New York. If so, specific evidence of the sabotage would have been almost impossible to dredge up from the wintry Atlantic. But Flight 103 left Heathrow 25 minutes late. Anticipating such delays, terrorists have used barometers to start a timer only when a set air pressure has developed near the bomb. Since the cargo holds in a 747 are pressurized after takeoff...
Still, South Yemen remains firmly in the Soviet orbit. Aden's strategic location gives the Soviet navy a deep-water port with excellent facilities to service its large Indian Ocean fleet. From there, Soviet ships could control access in or out of the Red Sea, a choke point of global importance. South Yemen refuses to accord the U.S.S.R. full base rights for its navy, and is rumored to restrict port calls by Soviet warships to twelve a year. But bunkering and repair services are always available...