Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immediately, Referee Andy Bakjian, an American, ruled that she was disqualified, but the British appealed to an eight-member board, which swiftly reinstated her. After studying numerous television replays and discussing every known rule of track etiquette, nobody except Decker seemed absolutely sure there was a foul, let alone who committed it. Cornelia Buerki of Switzerland, also South African-born, had a respectable view from the back of the pack. "I would say it was Mary's fault," she said. "She was trying to pass Budd on the inside and spiked Zola's Achilles. Zola couldn...
...last week challenged the Democrats to permit the full House to vote on the amendment. The sponsors, however, were utterly at a loss to explain how the amendment would actually produce a no-deficit budget next year (Reagan's own proposals project a $180.4 billion deficit for 1985), except by instilling a somewhat mystical "discipline." Nor did Reagan clear the air much at week's end when he told his radio audience that he would veto any bill aimed at raising personal tax rates...
...feel sorry for the foreign athletes," said a South African visitor, Glynnis Crouch. "They're not only competing against the U.S. teams but against the spectators as well. They are being demoralized before they even set foot on the field." But except at the boxing matches, where fighting any American must be a bloodcurdling prospect, few opponents have been blatantly rooted against. When Gymnast Koji Gushiken of Japan edged Peter Vidmar by 25 one-thousandths of a point in the all-around competition, and Gushiken cried the tears of a 27-year-old warrior who had been holding fast with...
Anyone who has watched him train knows that the world's fastest human does everything slowly except run. He is slow to start his workout. His warmup is usually a slow jog once around the track. He spends a lot of time talking and walking, slowly. Lewis grabs the tape measure and stretches it 171 ft. along the track, the distance of his approach for the long jump. This is the first activity of most workouts. But Lewis does not normally jump in practice; he merely runs through the paces of his approach. This final workout lasts...
...race, the 100-meter freestyle, a fast-gun start left everyone except U.S. Veteran Rowdy Gaines flatfooted, and Gaines, who is retiring, set an Olympic record. West German Thomas Fahrner got so angry at himself for failing to qualify for the 400-meter freestyle that in the consolation he broke the brand-new Olympic record just set by George DiCarlo of the U.S. He got an Olympic record, a big hand, but no medal...