Word: deckers
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...questions raised have revolved around eligibility, broadly defined: Who can enter what events? In the biggest case, 82 women runners from 21 countries, including U.S. World Record-Holder Mary Decker, were trying to have 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter races for women added to this year's schedule. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, they argued that the International Olympic Committee "operates with a 19th century view of the place of women." Indeed, as late as 1952 there was an unsuccessful I.O.C. proposal to eliminate women's track and field completely. Although three women...
...carried for nine months was the genetic offspring of another woman, who had donated an unfertilized egg. The birth of the world's first "donor-egg baby" in November, which was announced last week by scientists in Australia, marks a new step in overcoming infertility. Declared Gynecologist Wayne Decker, executive director of the Fertility Research Foundation of New York: "It is a remarkable and astounding feat that offers hope to all women who suffer from ovarian failure or who have had their ovaries removed...
...been for the aggressive play of UConn sophomore Laurie Decker yesterday, the Huskies might have succumbed to in the upset-minded Crimson. But Decker finally found the back of the Harvard twines at the 20:33 mark, when she best the Crimson defense and deked a shot past Harvard netminder Juliet Lamont...
...Decker netted the game's only other goal, when with just over three minutes remaining, she caught the visitors off guard and unable to clear the ball...
Grossman, playing first singles, made it to the finals and played some of his best tennis of the season against top-seeded Glen Layen-decker, the Eli who recently upset Harvard's Howard Sands (who has been resting since that match). Grossman had beaten Layen-decker earlier in the season, but lost by a few crucial shots in two 7-4 tie-breaker rounds, 6,7,6-7. "Warren played a very high caliber of tennis," Fish said. "To have him play as well as he did and not win says something about Layendecker, who's a real class player...