Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is it about the ocean and media moguls? Ted Turner, Robert Maxwell and now RUPERT MURDOCH have all made news on the water. Murdoch, an avid sailor, helped Oracle CEO Larry Ellison win Australia's most prestigious yacht race, the Sydney to Hobart. Although he described his role as "acting as a bit of ballast," Murdoch also took turns at the grinder, in the galley and at the helm during the three-day race. And all this while injured. A few days before the race, Murdoch caught his right index finger between the sail and the boom...
Forbes' competitors have already gone to some lengths to attack him. An aide to a rival campaign leaked word that Forbes' 151-ft.-long yacht, the Highlander, features among its art collection a photograph by the late homosexual artist Robert Mapplethorpe. (Well, yes, but it's a seascape.) Another operative in the same campaign found a waitress in New Hampshire who claims that Forbes left a miserly $2 tip on a $45 lunch bill; others in the party added $6. If these tactics are an indication of the weeks to come, the race is likely to be brutish as well...
WANT TO HAVE LUNCH WITH NEWT? WHAT ABOUT BREAKFAST WITH the future Republican nominee for President? Or drinks on a yacht with California Governor Pete Wilson and other G.O.P. Governors? All this access to powerful people is for sale, and can be yours, for a mere $250,000. Make checks payable to the Republican National Committee...
...cleaning up the problems than debilitating the American public and raising everyone to a level where he or she is able to take advantage of the system of capitalism, the solution seems to be making sure that those who are still above water stay way above--maybe in a yacht--while those who are not, either drown, or if they can, save themselves, by themselves. Not all, or anything close to it, is lost, but America should not lose sight of itself. It must design more life preservers and be more generous in doling them...
...thought they could put it together and there'd be all this synergy." Charles Exley, who quit as NCR's CEO the day the merger took effect, chose not to crow about the results of Allen's folly. Says Exley, who now sails the world on his yacht: "Perhaps now NCR can go about its business once again...