Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first with the poise and confidence of veterans, they easily knocked off Japan and subdued a strong Dutch team coached by Arie Selinger, who guided the U.S. women to a silver medal in 1984. Then the Americans dropped the first two games of their best- of-five match with Argentina. "We were overconfident," admits Marv Dunphy, the U.S. men's coach since 1985. "We were waiting for them to make mistakes so we could win it. But the Argentines are too good for that sort of approach." Thanks to a sustained come-from-behind drive, the Yanks won the next...
...Midnight Gymnastics (M). ind. all-around finals begin. Water Polo: U.S. vs. Spain. Volleyball (M): U.S. vs. Argentina. Swimming (M & W): heats. Pentathlon concludes...
...concentrated in Latin America, are at best mixed. Brazil, which owes $120 billion, seems to be on the upswing: in December the country resumed paying all its interest -- more than ten months after it stunned the financial community by stopping payments on its loans from private banks. But in Argentina, which is some $55 billion in debt, President Raul Alfonsin has imposed a wage-price freeze to curb inflation, which was running at an annual rate of more than 300% in July. Earlier this month, the U.S. announced that it would give Argentina an emergency $500 million loan to help...
Kuwait made its options clear when, in the wake of the Senate vote, it promptly agreed to buy 245 armored personnel carriers from the Soviet Union. A host of other nations, including France, China, Brazil and Argentina, are eagerly competing to meet the oil-rich Persian Gulf Arabs' desire to shore up defenses against their fundamentalist neighbor Iran...
Imagine the summer of 1994, Husky Stadium, Seattle, Washington--Argentina vs. Brazil, 72,484 partisans on hand, every television in the world tuned...