Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Concerned about the headstart most schools have over the spikers because of Harvard's late registration, Altman had the team members on a comprehensive summer training program which included weights, sprint and endurance work, jumping, and rolling--a technique for avoiding injury when lunging for a save. "At this level of play," adds the former assistant at the University of Nebraska, "the winning team is often the one which practiced longer and harder...
...League schools have varsity teams except Dartmouth, which does not have a volleyball program, and Yale where the varsity team was recently demoted to club status...
...intelligence sources, similarly, do not believe that the Mujahedin enjoy sufficient popular support to take over. "They can obviously disrupt and terrorize, but whether they have an alternative program and leadership to offer is far from clear," says one expert. Washington, in any event, has no illusions about its ability to influence events in Iran. "We have an interest in Iran as a buffer to Soviet expansion," an Administration official explains. "But at this point, all we can do is sit back and wait to see what happens." Although Moscow has consistently supported Khomeini, the Soviets are in a similar...
What was most notable about the increases was that the government did not clear them beforehand with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and his colleagues. Solidarity had maintained that there should be no changes in food prices until an economic reform program had been agreed upon. The government went ahead anyway, and Solidarity acquiesced, to avoid yet another showdown...
...ample farm land and considerable mineral wealth, but Gierek's grandiose heavy-industry schemes have left the country virtually bankrupt and $27 billion in debt to the West. And Solidarity now goes further: it has zeroed in on mismanagement at the local level and is pressing for a program of "self-management" under which factories and other enterprises would be run not by state-appointed managers but by directors chosen by workers' councils. In July, employees of LOT, the state airline, struck for four hours over the right to choose a new director. They did not succeed...