Word: springboarding
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...village the other day," Louganis said, "and I heard someone mention, 'Five to a room, ten to a bathroom,' I thought: 'Why am I still doing this?' " But the answer came to him even before he became the first three-time Pan Am champion of the three-meter springboard. "I still have goals, tremendous goals." At the diving nationals in April, Louganis tasted second place for the first time in a while. "But second place isn't losing," he said. "If I learn something from a competition, I can be second to last and still come out a winner...
...this, the six-inch actor found the work on "Dynasty" unstimulating. "Nobody works that hard and the material is sort of a hoot," he says. "I was more interested in golf and book reading than in what I was doing." Howard says a television series serves as a nice springboard for good-looking young actors and actresses as well as a "twilight song for various performers like John Forsythe, Barbara Stanwyck and Charlton Heston." But for an actor "in the middle" of his career, as he characterizes himself, such an undertaking seems stifling...
...complaints about tonight," Harvard Coach Pete Roby said. "We wanted to use this game as a springboard for the rest of the season, and I think we'll be able...
...Crimson (7-0 Ivy League) will try to use its gutsy performance last night as a springboard for the rest of the season. Harvard has only three games left on its Ivy League schedule. If the Crimson wins two of those final games, it will win the regular-season Ivy title and earn home-ice advantage for the Ivy League Tournament...
...good," Harvard Captain Peter Chiarelli said. "It makes us more eager when we come back. We want to win the Beanpot. We have a good chance. A win would act as a springboard for the rest of the season...