Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Junior Rick Kief's adjustment to the 142-lb. slot has improved with each bout. The broad-shouldered veteran, who used to starve himself trying to make a lighter class, is thriving on the extra calories...
...master's degree in humanities at nearby Wayne State University with the help of her mother's Dodge Main paychecks. Now she works as a secretary to a local psychiatrist. Most of her high school classmates have left, she says: "They settled into a lower-middle-class life in places like Warren and Dearborn." A case of upward automobility, perhaps. As Boorstin said, "The mobility that brought the people here is also the kind of mobility that, in American history, carries them elsewhere." -Barrett Seaman
...This is our moment in the sun, our chance to feel vital," observes Julia Rivera de Vincenty, head of George Bush's campaign on the island. "We are starting to shed our second-class image." Agrees Mario Gaztambide, finance chairman for Howard Baker: "This should convince the people in Kansas that we're more than a winter playground...
...Pledge several hundred million to help build first-class facilities at the permanent site. While the U.S. could pay a substantial part of the price, other countries could be apportioned shares of the expenses to get the permanent home of the Olympics established. Thereafter, the quadrennial profits and expenses could be negotiated between the permanent host and the participating nations...
...days a week to travel to a rink near her Northridge, Calif., home for practice. She takes a break for a two-hour nap at midday, then practices until 6 p.m. Twice a week she works out in a gym, and once weekly she attends ballet class...