Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freestyle afforded the renewal of the local rivalry between Suhs and Boston University's Sybil Smith. Yale's Lisa O'Dell, however, threw a shadow on that showdown by smashing the EWSL record in her victory. O'Dell became the first Eastern swimmer to slide under the formidable 23 second barrier with a time...
...hurt." It is an apocryphal tale with a pointed message. As long as anyone can remember, old age and disability have been paired as naturally and inevitably as the horse and carriage or death and taxes. After all, advancing years have been seen by most people as an inexorable slide into illness, impotence and immobility...
Another "miracle" for the Americans? It certainly would be, say the experts. -- On tape: Women's luge final. Bonny Warner could slide in among the powerhouse East Germans to become the first U.S. luge medalist...
...comparative decline in the international pecking order will not imply a lapse of national drive or purpose: "It simply has not been given to any one society to remain permanently ahead of all the others." Furthermore, enlightened leadership should be able to detect changing realities and thus prevent a slide from turning into a crash: "The only serious threat to the real interests of the United States can come from a failure to adjust sensibly to the newer world order." Not everyone will welcome or accept Kennedy's bittersweet verdict that the U.S. may become healthier in the long...
...moved with any conviction. Traders seemed practically paralyzed by the knowledge that on Friday the Commerce Department would release the U.S. trade statistics for November. There was good reason for their concern. Three months earlier a worse than expected trade-deficit figure helped send the stock market into a slide that culminated in the great crash of Oct. 19. And in mid-December the announcement of a sharp jump in the trade deficit sent the dollar tumbling...