Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...receive commemorative congressional gold medals. Afterward they are scheduled to meet with President and Mrs. Carter at the White House. Says F. Don Miller, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee: "It's our way of honoring the athletes who qualified as Olympians . . . We want them to know how much the nation thinks of them...
...questions. What if Renaldo Nehemiah were running the 110-meter hurdles? What if Mac Wilkins were throwing the discus? What if Larry Myricks were competing in the long jump, and the U.S. basketball team were challenging the Soviets on their home court? Like home-team boosters everywhere, they will know the answers with a visceral certainty. Gold. Gold. Gold. So, too, will many Soviets, whatever face they put upon their diminished Olympiad...
...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...
National weather experts did not know if last week's short respite in some areas meant a break in the nation's agony or only a temporary reprieve. By week's end the killing heat and drought had caused the death of more than 1,200 people by some estimates and cost farmers millions of dollars in lost crops and livestock...
...physician-patient relationship, and calling for stronger self-policing in weeding out unethical and incompetent colleagues. Says Dr. James Todd, a Ridgewood, N.J., surgeon who headed the code-revision committee: "A lot of physicians don't like to concede that there are incompetent doctors. But we all know that there are incompetent people in any profession...