Word: beate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avenge defeats in their last Olympic encounters. The U.S. women took the silver to the Soviets' gold in the first Olympic women's basketball competition in 1976. Anne Donovan, a holdover from the 1980 boycott team and a member of a U.S. squad that last year beat the Soviets once and lost to them twice by a total of three points, maintained last week that "we are too motivated to lose to anyone, especially the Soviets." Coach Pat Head Summitt agreed: "We are at least 15 points better than when we last played them." The U.S. men have...
...course, all the speculation proved pointless. The American women beat their opponents by an average margin of 33; the men by 32. Even the scores did not fully convey the sense of hopelessness with which the other teams went onto the court. Coach Antonio Diaz-Miguel of Spain, whose men's team lost by 101-68 in a preliminary game and by 96-65 for the gold medal, predicted from the outset that the U.S. men would not lose a game. Said he: "American basketball is 50 years ahead of other countries, and I think no one will ever...
...Anaheim Convention Center took particular delight in the superheavyweight bouts, which featured bruisers like Canada's Bob Molle and Japan's Koichi Ishimori, in action here. Molle stayed on top and went on to the finals, where he got the silver medal. America's Bruce Baumgartner beat him for the gold...
...confrontation was the climax of a cross-country tournament that drew cheering crowds in Cambridge, Mass., Annapolis, Md., and Palo Alto, Calif., and had as competitors teams from such unlikely lands as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Cameroon. Both finalists survived tense overtime tests to reach the championship contest: France beat Yugoslavia 4-2, while Brazil nipped Italy 2-1. Some of the action was almost tough enough to warrant shoulder pads and helmets; in the semifinal, France's Didier Senac fractured his skull in an on-field collision, and two Yugoslavs were ejected for excessive roughness...
...time when many companies cannot resist the temptation to take the money and run, Sears continues to show how to succeed in business by really trying. It is tough to beat the offer that Richard...