Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Same date: Harvard dusts Yale by 25 shots in the oldest intercollegiate golf match in the country here at the Duxbury Yacht Club course...
...worst excesses have vanished. The presidential yacht Sequoia, which Nixon's aides would take down the Potomac but abandon in favor of a helicopter for the trip back, has been sold. But don't look for many bus trips. The President took his victory lap on Air Force One last Wednesday to go to the town meeting in Detroit. It's a $181 million Boeing 747 with an office, computer center, conference room, bedroom, 85 phones, 18 televisions, soft lighting and an operating room for emergency surgery. Clinton put on the blue serge flight jacket with the presidential seal...
According to a spokesperson for Priority Records, the recently-named distributor of the artist's work, Ice T was on his yacht in the Mediterranean Sea last night, and was un- available for comment...
That is not all the crown costs. The government maintains royal buildings and grounds, the yacht Britannia with its crew of 256, the train and the various planes and helicopters that the family use. It all adds up to more than $100 million a year. Commentators like to bring up Scandinavian monarchies, which cost a fraction of that, but Britons revel in pageantry, elaborate parades and huge royal weddings -- and no one in the world puts on a better show...
...than $36 billion. Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko has a personal fortune that has been estimated from $4 billion to $6 billion, not far below the level of the country's external debt. He has isolated himself from his people -- and from gathering political unrest -- aboard a luxury yacht that cruises the Zaire River...