Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maumelle, Ark.; Shenandoah, Ga.; Park Forest South, Ill.; St. Charles, Md.; Cedar-Riverside and Jonathan, Minn.; Gananda and Riverton, N.Y.; Soul City, N.C.; Newfields, Ohio; Harbison, S.C.; Flower Mound and The Woodlands, Texas...
...students, nearly 3,000 of them girls, compete on teams with a firm no-cut policy. Everyone gets a chance to play. Teams are fielded according to skill level, and a struggle between junior varsity or C-squad basketball teams is as enthusiastically contested as a varsity clash. Cedar Rapids' schoolgirl athletes compete in nine sports, guided by 144 coaches. Access to training equipment is equal too. The result has been unparalleled athletic success. In the past eight years, Cedar Rapids boys and girls teams have finished among the state's top three 68 times, winning 30 team championships...
Girls' athletics have become an accustomed part of the way of life in Cedar Rapids. At a recent girls' track meet, runners, shotputters, hurdlers, high jumpers pitted themselves, one by one, in the age-old contests to run faster, leap higher, throw farther. For many, there were accomplishments they once would have thought impossible. A mile relay team fell into triumphant embrace when word came of qualification for the state finals. Team members shouted the joy of victory?"We did it!" ?and then asked permission to break training: "Now can we go to the Dairy Queen, Coach?" Granted...
Kelly Galiher, 15, has grown up in the Cedar Rapids system that celebrates sport for all. The attitudes and resistance that have stunted women's athleticism elsewhere are foreign to Kelly, a sprinter. Does she know that sports are, in some quarters, still viewed as unseemly for young women? "That's ridiculous. Boys sweat, and we're going to sweat. We call it getting out and trying." She has no memories of disapproval from parents or peers. And she has never been called the terrible misnomer that long and unfairly condemned athletic girls. "Tomboy? That idea has gone out here...
...business of oil and gas. The company spent more than $200 million last year in stepped-up onshore exploration in the U.S. It also paid $314 million last June to acquire twelve drilling tracts in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf spent $400 million to $500 million to build its Cedar Bayou ethylene plant near Houston; it opened last year but, say industry sources, has never operated at more than 60% of capacity, causing a substantial drain on Gulfs petrochemical earnings. Gulf also acquired for $455 million Kewanee Industries, a specialty chemical firm. In all, the company's 1977 capital spending...