Word: metered
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...self-effacing young Moroccan--he turns 26 the day before the Games start--said he was honored to meet "Monsieur Bannister" and said Bannister's 3:59.4 time on a cinder track in 1954 was the equivalent of about 3:42 today, or a meter or so ahead of his own Rome record. Sir Roger chuckled and thanked...
...spores, which thrive in dampness, are potent allergens and an asthma trigger. Some studies have even shown that they can cause memory loss. Our biggest concern is the roof leak, which took the roofer three shots to fix. "It seems pretty much dried up," Brennan says, running his moisture meter up the wall. "You might have some dead mold back there, but I wouldn't bother ripping the walls...
...leads section with Katharine Q. Seelye's anatomy of a Gore rallying cry: "working families." The campaign even tested it with a hand-held "people meter," like the admen use on focus groups. Code for "waitress moms," which is code for "populism," which is code for Gore. WP leads harder with Richard Morin/Claudia Deane on new WP-ABC news poll... Boing! Gore takes 50-45 lead over Bush, 46-44 in a four-way race, "by easing doubts about his leadership ability and personal style while establishing himself with voters as the candidate best able to deal with the economy...
...round this baldly shaven fact One must step with little tact: An older woman had outrun A 100-meter champion...
With the two favorites Tisha Waller and Amy Acuff failing to clear the 1.93-meter bar, Aldrich was guaranteed a spot in Sydney. Acuff won a jump-off to knock the heralded Waller out of Olympic contention. The women's high jump will be one of the last events contested at Sydney. The next Gyorffy vs. Aldrich matchup will not take place until the high jump preliminaries on September 28th, the last Thursday of the Olympics. The top twelve finishers in the preliminaries will compete again two days later to determine the medal winners...