Word: deckers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waiting with sifters, who shake the dirt back and forth. The Americans wrap a winch line around a nearby tree to help pull a piece of rusted metal out of the hard-packed soil. "I don't have any idea what it is," says Navy Lieut. Commander Loren E. Decker Jr., a tall, muscular man standing at the bottom of the deep hole. "It's so mangled, you can't tell...
...nearly 5 o'clock now, and the men in the pit are beginning to emerge wearily. Navy Lieut. Commander Decker is the last man left in, a solitary figure warmed by the fading gold of the afternoon sun. Like the others, he is a kind of archaeologist exhuming not the distant past but a recent one, searching not for fossils and amulets but for the bones and traces of lost colleagues...
...told how especially touching it was for her "to see Carl out on the track there in Los Angeles. Jesse would have been proud." Lewis thanked her, and though he had not planned to say anything of the kind, declared for athletes generally, maybe for past Owens Winners Mary Decker and Edwin Moses particularly, "We are people too; we make mistakes. But we do our hardest...
...fault found in Decker also had to do with style. That flinty and fragile , 15-year-old who flung batons in charming anger simply seemed less wholesome and attractive at 26 throwing brickbats at Zola Budd. Before a poster of Decker tacked tenderly to her bedroom wall, Zola had once been awestruck that "anyone could be so pretty." Now that the athletes have resumed running and jumping, a number have been reluctant to let Mary up. "Some of us," says Ruth Wysocki, "are relieved that the public knows the Mary we knew all along," the one whom Miler Steve Scott...
...Dustbuster has transformed Black & Decker from a power-tool company catering to do-it-yourselfers in their workshops to a maker of products for the entire home. Says Vice President Stephen Britt: "Dustbuster got us out of the basement and upstairs." Last year the company moved deeper into the housewares market by paying $300 million for General Electric's small- appliance division. As sales swelled from $1.17 billion in 1983 to $1.53 billion in 1984, profits went from $44.2 million to $95.4 million...