Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began over a year ago, when Auckland Investment Banker Michael Fay overturned 30 years of tradition and challenged the San Diego Yacht Club to a one-on-one race, instead of joining a regatta planned for 1991. When a New York State Supreme Court upheld Fay's captious interpretation of the rules, San Diego countered in kind by saying regulations permitted it to defend in a $ catamaran, a multihulled craft usually speedier than a monohull...
...House, Democratic Whip Tony Coelho used a 112-ft. yacht and Learjet belonging to Vernon Savings & Loan to entertain contributors and fly to fund- raising parties. Federal thrift regulators last year charged the Texas bank's officers with looting it; two have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the case. Last year Coelho lobbied for a $5 billion bill to bail out the industry. Coelho has admitted he was wrong to use the yacht and jet; he and the Democrats' campaign committee paid Vernon $48,450 for their...
...Jazzman Charlie Parker, was unspooling a few miles down the Riviera at the 41st Cannes Film Festival, Eastwood reminisced about the small indignities that beset a larger- than-life movie hero. On a trip to Cannes in 1985, his sponsors had set him up in a portside yacht near the Palais des Festivals. But the yacht's ceilings were too low to accommodate his 6-ft. 4-in. frame, even when he stooped, and Hollywood's most statesmanlike hunk endured a week's worth of cricked neck. Such are the sacrifices that art exacts in a Cote d'Azur Disneyland...
...fishing palace owned by Ted Sabarese, a New Jersey computer-company executive, is awash with $210,000 worth of angling gadgetry. Its cabin is a war room of screens, gauges and graphs, including three position finders, a satellite navigation system and three depth sounders. Says Dick Greiner, the yacht's skipper: "You're only as good as the equipment...
...Federal Government to enforce existing laws to the utmost degree. That means seizing vehicles, boats and planes if just a speck of any controlled substance is found on board. By last week the Coast Guard and Customs had grabbed some 1,700 conveyances, including the $2.5 million yacht Ark Royal and the good ship Monkey Business, famed as the holiday vessel of Gary Hart and Donna Rice. Those two ships were also returned, but the fate of hundreds of less celebrated transports still hangs in the balance...