Word: comebacking
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...athletic career. Top athletes now train year-round instead of seasonally. "It's not advancing age that necessarily hurts performance," says American physiologist Steve Fleck, "it's deconditioning." Experts believe that swimmer Mark Spitz, 42, whose technique in the butterfly stroke is still regarded as ideal, failed in his comeback bid earlier this year in part because he had been out of condition for 17 years and did not do enough resistance training. Nonetheless, notes Fleck, "the trend is in the direction of the better performances coming from older athletes...
...Tokyo markets, which have plummeted 30% since January, staged a brief comeback Thursday. They were encouraged by the launching of the new Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, Japan's first regulatory agency for stock exchanges, and the news that Japanese Premier Kiichi Miyazawa would convene a special Cabinet session. The Nikkei resumed its steep downward slide Friday, however, after Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata said it would be difficult to bolster the market. Business leaders have urged the government to take steps to prop up the market. Miyazawa, however, is banking on a supplementary budget to stimulate the economy...
...dominated ABC's prime-time schedule that a rival producer called him "practically a one-man restraint of trade." But as his programs dropped off the schedule, Spelling dropped out of sight, resurfacing < only occasionally with short-lived duds like NBC's Nightingales. Then in 1990 he made a comeback with a very un-Spelling-like hit: Fox's high school drama, Beverly Hills 90210. Now he has four new series scheduled to air this summer and fall, the first of which, Melrose Place, has just debuted on Fox. No doubt about it, Spelling is back. What's worse...
...Tomorrow night," Clinton concluded, "I will be the comeback...
...Senate may differ, and the President certainly does, so the collider could make a comeback. But mixed feelings on the Hill could scare away the Japanese, whose hoped-for investment in the project has already proved a tough sell. And if it doesn't survive, the secrets of the universe could be unraveled anyway: a European lab is working on a collider that is nearly as powerful...