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Re: Americas cup (was Oil pressure)

To: "Richard Niven" <richard.niven@clear.net.nz>,
Subject: Re: Americas cup (was Oil pressure)
From: Randall <randallyoung@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:48:25 -0800
The Becketts wrote:
> 
> Richard Niven wrote:
> 
> >Americas cup starts today, first race in 3 centuries without the
> Americans!!
> 
> I always thought you Kiwis had odd calendars.  Three centuries??


Well, that's true in a way.  At no time in the last 3 centuries has the
US not been a finalist in the Americas cup race.  Of course, the race
has only been being run for the last 150 years ... <g>

And, it cost the Italians almost twice as much ($55 million to $30
million) to do it !

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