Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean, let's face the truth, how influential are the final clubs upon a person's career? Does Lisa Schkolnick really think that membership in the Fly Club gives anyone an unfair advantage over the rest of us poor s.o.b.s? Let's examine the facts...
Some of the little girls watching the competition might go on to a career in ice skating; one might win a gold medal. I hope the sportscasters and judges she has to face will be as encouraging of athletic skill as of artistic talent...
...grow up to be Olympic champions, there is still an important message from Saturday's competition. The skating beauties who have won golds in the past--in part by pandering to the public's wish for a stereotype, be it elegant, cute, or sexy-have chosen careers consistent with their stage images. Peggy Fleming filmed commercials for Trident gum before moving on to sportscasting; Dorothy Hamill inspired a national hairstyle and represented a shampoo company; Katerina Witt is about to enter a career in acting and modeling. But things will be different for 1988's bronze medalist. A true sportswoman...
Duncan's total of 66 blocked shots this year is six short of Harvard's season record, which she established in her freshman year. Duncan has now blocked 204 shots in her career...
...women. Having resisted the Navy policy change that put them on board, the ship's narrator-captain treats them fairly, admires their sailorly skills and forgets to his peril that they are, after all, women. An austere career man identified only as Tom or the Captain, he leads the mixed crew bravely through mutiny, internecine murder and nuclear winter, until at last he confronts the cunning of Lieut. Girard, the ship's ranking female. "She carried that greatest of all handicaps that may befall a woman," Tom laments before falling for her. "She was simply too bright for most...