Word: discuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point lead during the field events and long-distance races. Crimson rack victories supplied the bulk of the points, but a fourth-place finish by Mary Ellen Finney in the shot put, and third-and fourth-place finishes by Debbie Markson and Beth Cooley in the discus provided essential points for the final tally...
...fact. More significant, according to Gerald Skoog, 45, professor of education at Tex as Tech University, textbooks now say less about evolution. Between 1974 and 1977, the section on Darwin's life in Biology, a text published by Silver Burdett, was cut from 1,373 words to 45. Discus sion of the origins of life went from 2,023 words to 322. Text devoted to Darwin's view of evolution shrank from 2,750 words to 296. Sections on fossil formation and geologic eras were deleted entirely...
...sports fans, they will be entering the second week of an imaginary Olympiad, hunching over the agate type in their sports sections and asking some tantalizing questions. What if Renaldo Nehemiah were running the 110-meter hurdles? What if Mac Wilkins were throwing the discus? What if Larry Myricks were competing in the long jump, and the U.S. basketball team were challenging the Soviets on their home court? Like home-team boosters everywhere, they will know the answers with a visceral certainty. Gold. Gold. Gold. So, too, will many Soviets, whatever face they put upon their diminished Olympiad...
...least four U.S. men would have been favored to win gold medals in track and field: Edwin Moses (400-meter hurdles), Renaldo Nehemiah (110-meter hurdles), Larry Myricks (long jump) and Mac Wilkins (discus). In addition, Sprinters James Sanford (100 meters), LaMonte King (200) and Billy Mullins (400) have world-best times this year...
...would the U.S. team have fared in Moscow? Predictions have a way of coming apart as runners stumble, discus throwers suffer slipped discs, and pole vaulters cannot rise to the occasion. But there seems little doubt that the U.S. would have continued its domination of men's track events as well as taking several medals in the long jump, discus, shot-put and pole vault. American women rank among the world's fastest in the sprints, but a hamstring injury to Pan Am Games Champion Evelyn Ashford undermined U.S. hopes. Eastern Europeans would, as always, have car ried...