• So has Steven Schooner, co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program at George Washington University.

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  • When I tried Newcastle Brown in a Schooner it did seem more effervescent and fragrant.

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  • This majestic tall ship, a faithful replica of a 19th-century schooner, first set sail in 1985.

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  • Steven Schooner is the co-director of the government procurement law program at George Washington University's law school.

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  • But Schooner says not all the blame rests with those government officers handing out the contracts, either.

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  • Also look for the Pride of Baltimore II, a 100-foot replica of a 19th-century privateer schooner.

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  • The four-piece band (violin, cello, harp and piano) plays with spirit and the cast sings with schooner-waving gusto.

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  • The Wachowskis were shooting scenes set on the Prophetess, the schooner on which much of the nineteenth-century story takes place.

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  • Not because the weather isn't bad, but because it's so severe that our schooner can't put to sea at all.

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  • The most famous example is the Constellation, a 200-foot schooner which was writer Peter Benchley's inspiration for the book The Deep.

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  • "What is very, very difficult at this point is to go back and say who's responsible for the error, " Schooner says.

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  • The material, which was loaded on a schooner sailing vessel, will be sculpted into a piece of art called Nowhere Island.

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  • Does it trouble you that Netscape founder Jim Clark is a centi-millionaire who drinks fine wine and sails on a 292-foot schooner?

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  • Schooner says contractors were often not given direction, and government officials awarding the contracts were not always honest about the security risks.

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  • In 1851, the schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.

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  • The schooner is designed to generate its own energy, enabling people to remain on board for long periods without having to put in to harbour.

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  • This 73-foot-long schooner is the stuff dropping-out-of-the-workaday-world fantasies are made of.

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  • The great big silvery building that looks like a schooner.

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  • And, come September 2, its bays will be filled with head-turning vessels for the annual Gloucester Schooner Festival, bringing races, public sails, boat parades and fireworks to town.

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  • For example, Schooner Information Technology has software for database acceleration that makes databases run 8 times faster than typical configurations by using boatloads of flash memory on commodity hardware.

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  • The schooner has travelled 62, 000 miles across the Atlantic, Pacific, Antarctic and Indian oceans investigating the effects of global warming on biodiversity and marine life, particularly focusing on marine plankton.

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  • No deaths have been recorded during the actual racing since its inception in 1851, when Queen Victoria watched the schooner America beat a fleet of British ships around the Isle of Wight.

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  • Ecolution, a 26m twin-masted schooner, is owned by Dr Ockels, a physicist and astronaut who became the first Dutch civilian in space, flying on the Challenger space shuttle on a Spacelab mission.

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  • In one widely reported incident, venture capitalist Thomas Perkins was fined by a French court in 1996 after his 143-foot Herreshoff schooner collided with a smaller boat at the La Nioulargue Regatta in St.

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  • One spurned applicant, says Drummond, anchored his 150-ton schooner off the clubhouse and sent in a note saying he would commence shelling in 30 minutes unless the man who blackballed him--the son of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--personally apologized.

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  • Take a private or group cruise watch out for special events like a tour featuring the wines of Australia and New Zealand with Schooner Woodwind on a 74-foot wooden ship, and pitch in by helping raise the sails or steer the boat.

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  • "They were given insufficient resources to do the work, they were told to perform the work against an unrealistic deadline, and they were told frankly that money was no object: 'Get it done however you can get it done, ' " Schooner says.

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  • "Schooner's MySQL and NoSQL solutions combined with the LSI WarpDrive card provide industry-leading performance for database and key-value stores, delivering over 9x performance throughput increase relative to hard drive configurations and over 3x performance throughput increase relative to alternative PCIe flash-based solutions, " said Dr. John Busch, founder and CTO, Schooner Information Technologies.

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  • Mr. STEVEN SCHOONER (Co-Director, Government Procurement Law Program, George Washington University): The fear at this point is there does not seem to be a centralized, sophisticated, well-organized planning institution within the government that's going to make good, rational, long-term decisions as to how the reconstruction is done before the government starts throwing money at the problems.

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