Word: duncan
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...past 20 years only because so many spouses have taken jobs and gone to work. Even with those extra incomes, the size of the middle class has been shrinking. Before the onset of the recession in 1990, according to a survey by Timothy Smeeding of Syracuse University and Greg Duncan of the University of Michigan, "the middle class has decreased from about three-quarters of the population to about two-thirds." Some of the shrinkage resulted from upward mobility -- people earned their way into upper brackets. But most of the change has been downward...
...slope for an instant, touch the side of the run for a second, and 10,000 hours of practice are gone. The athletes carry alarm clocks -- or time bombs -- in their heads and measure their lives in heartbeats (193 a minute for a biathlete). "Luge is all feeling," explained Duncan Kennedy, an American luger who won by placing 10th (higher, at the time, than any U.S. luger in history). "You can have a 'great run,' but if you're not feeling the track, you end up a second behind, and you don't know where the time went...
...announcement was made by Brook and fellow researchers Richard T. Moxley, from the University of Rochester, Duncan J. Shaw, from the University of Wales College of Medicine, and Keith Johnson, from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School...
While senior Co-Captains Duncan and Stephanie Wriede (who is headed for the NCAA championships and the Olympic trials) anchor the team, the heart of the Crimson is its freshman class...
...have confidence in the freshmen pulling through for us," Duncan said. "They have proved themselves again and again throughout the season...