Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boss, who swept Eagle Amy Richardson, 6-0, 6-2, led a Crimson contingent that won five out of six singles matches. Other straight set winners were junior Cyndy Austrian (6-3, 6-4) and sophomore Kristin Bland...
...doubles competition, the netwomen took two out of the three matches. The duo of Boss and Bland defeated Richardson and Cathryn Sullivan, 6-4, 6-2, while Austrian and Kathy Vigna also won in straight sets...
...French skier. The dejected French competitors blamed the bad showing on their skis and on poor preparation by the team's technical support staff, most of whom are Rossignol trained. The case against the skis gained new evidence when a French downhill contender, Philippe Verneret, substituted skis from an Austrian company for his final run and improved his time by two seconds, enough to boost him from 27th to eleventh place...
...arctic blast stunned eastern and central Europe. Thirty-one weather- related deaths were reported in Poland, 20 in Hungary and 5 in Austria. Along the snowbound, 170-mile highway linking Budapest with Vienna, more than 130 cars were immobilized for up to 18 hours until Soviet, Hungarian and Austrian tanks dug them out. One of the liberated motorists was Austria's Ambassador to Hungary, Arthur Agstner. Declared the grateful diplomat: "If the Soviet tanks had not arrived in time, several of us could have frozen to death...
What's to be done with millions of gallons of wine spiked with antifreeze? The Austrian Ministry of Agriculture has wrestled with that question for more than a year since it seized several warehouses of white wine that vintners and dealers had illegally sweetened with diethylene glycol, an antifreeze component. Pouring the stuff into a river or out onto the ground would only poison the water table and outrage Austria's watchful environmentalists...