Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starting to get interested in the story. You see, I had recently competed in a local swim meet where I had captured the 100 decibel "Don't splash water on me" competition and placed in the 200 I.M. (Impervious Manner) event in which the competitor must pretend she is asleep despite her mother yelling at her to do 200 things. But I knew Big League swimming was different and although a meet sponsored by Seventeen Magazine conjured visions of young girls trying to get into a pair of designer jeans while doing the backstroke, I realized there was more...
...best Soviet athletes win more than just medals. An Olympic-caliber competitor is a kind of professional amateur, with a salary paid by the state and a standard of living roughly equivalent to that of a successful factory manager. Vladimir Yashchenko, 21, a world-class high jumper busily training for the Olympics, receives a stipend of $400 from the government. Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 28, the 1980 winter Olympic champion figure-skating pair, live in a two-bedroom apartment in downtown Moscow, a privilege seldom granted to a couple so young. Once their playing days are over, many...
...portrays the world's largest company bringing family and friends together via long distance. The Army commercials emphasize "join the people who've joined the Army," and the message of 7 Up is that "America is turning 7 Up." So successful has the big agency been that Competitor McCabe pays it the ultimate compliment: "Ayer is like a creative little agency...
Osborn Elliott became editor of Newsweek in 1961 and set about transforming what was then a pallid copy of TIME into a feisty, prosperous competitor. "Oz" Elliott, now 55 and dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, tells how he did it and how much fun he had along the way. He rose above his humble beginnings (St. Paul's, Harvard, old money and a family friend, Builder-Bureaucrat Robert Moses, who got him a first job on the New York Journal of Commerce) to become business editor at Newsweek in 1955. He and Colleague...
...from Harvard's field squad, where the season's two most consistent winners, Gus Udo and Tom Lenz, each won their events. Lenz left his competition far behind with a winning toss of 209 ft. 10 in. in the hammer throw, a solid 10 feet farther than his nearest competitor...