Word: fields
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...effort to reach the nation's 86 million households and then process the answers contained on 120 million forms. It is to uncover major inaccuracies that the bureau decided to issue tentative findings this year. The disclosure is part of a new review process in which the early field counts, along with the maps of housing units used by census takers in making their tally, are being sent to the nation's 39,000 local jurisdictions. Municipal officials have two weeks to respond to these preliminary data. Where the numbers are contested, the bureau will recanvass the areas...
...scene at the Olympic Village suggested nothing unusual, nothing untoward. Athletes lolled in the early morning sun and sipped tea at umbrella-topped tables. In the distance, hurdlers could be seen skimming over the practice field. National flags fluttered from competitors' windows, the bunting of innocent patriotism...
...heavy business of the Olympics, track and field, did not get under way until late in the week. Most eagerly awaited was the showdown between England's exciting runners, Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, in the 800 meters. Another Briton, Allan Wells, 28, beat them to the gold with a victory in the 100-meter dash; Wells needed a closing rush to edge out Cuba's Silvio Leonard in the relatively slow time of 10.25. (The best U.S. time this year was 10.02 by James Sanford of the University of Southern California.) A Cuban woman, Maria Colon...
...there was any group that would know of Nauru's track team and stars (it had neither, it turned out) it was the one with which I traveled to Moscow, a tourist contingent sponsored by Track and Field News. "You are in a group," I was told, "of fans like no other-track fans-who will sit in the rain for four hours to watch someone throw a hammer. It doesn't matter to them where they are. They could be watching in the wastes of the Gobi Desert as long as someone grunts and there...
Another member of the group, a Minnesota native, told me he was going for more practical reasons. He was a lighting technician. He would not only be able to watch the track and field events but also check out his fellow technicians' artistry at the Bolshoi Theater. "If I had to choose between a visit backstage at the Bolshoi and watching Pietro Mennea, the Italian sprinter, run the 100 meters, I'd go crazy," he said. "I guess I'd watch Pietro. I'd give up any other track event for the Bolshoi...