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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winner of New York's Golden Gloves tournament and a member of the U.S. boxing team since 1978. Despite his youth, Ramos has already had 160 fights. The record: 154 wins, 80 of them knockouts, against six losses, all by decision. He has never been down for the count. Says the dean of fight promoters, Robert Arum: "He's a great banger...
...about unemployment grow daily. Republican Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan has proposed a $36 billion tax cut to help bolster the nation's "disintegrating economy." Liberal Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy has virtually accused President Carter of turning the nation's unemployment figure into a kind of statistical body count in the war on inflation...
Though he can count on a full year's severance salary from Ford, plus 23 weeks of unemployment insurance, the real shock is that a lifetime of skills and experience was ultimately unable to protect him from dismissal. Says he: "I really didn't think I'd be let go again. All I ever thought would happen was retirement at 60, and I wasn't looking forward to that...
...have to become more aware of how to defend ourselves. You can't count on the police a lot of the time," Rogers said...
Since the scores in team competition count for half of a gymnast's total in the all-around finals, it appeared that Comaneci had no chance to repeat as gold medalist. Yet she reeled off a 10 on the parallel bars and began the last rotation as one of three women with a shot at top honors...