Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four quiet years the athletes in these sweet, neglected sports have been up at dawn polishing their dreams, and are ready now to show us how far, how fast, how beautifully they can go. We so seldom drop by their world, and yet are made welcome. The opening ceremonies will feature Jamaican bobsledders still thrilling at the recent sighting of their first snow. "I am all alone with the mountain," Jean-Claude Killy used to murmur, but the golden skier of Grenoble was also known to drop his pants in midair and park his Volkswagen in the hotel lobby. This...
...gates, at speeds that can reach 80 or 85 m.p.h. The giant slalom, or GS, bridges downhill and slalom extremes in a beautiful, treacherous dance of large-radius turns. The super-G has not quite taken on its own character; it is either a slow, curvy downhill or a fast, stretched-out GS. Zurbriggen, going through high-speed gates in GS or super-G, is unmistakable: a big, rangy cat springing from turn to turn, from coiled crouch to full-body extension, from one outside, carving ski to the other. He looks fast and is. Last season he won four...
...presidency, Reagan has reason to fear that one of his most cherished foreign initiatives is slipping away. The House's 219-to-211 vote against granting an additional $36 million in aid to the contras does not mean the immediate end for the rebels. But with military supplies dwindling fast, the contras cannot hold out much longer. Says General Fred Woerner, commander in chief of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama: "We're talking in terms of a few months...
Monday night meeting, action will be taken to begin implementing other parts of the plan, such as the proposed monitoring of retail development to limit the influx of fast food restaurants, efforts to increase police protection in the square, and increase the overall appearance and cleanliness of the area...
Straus shuns the bureaucratic style of those merged entities resulting from takeovers by huge conglomerates that demand a fast return on their investment. He works in close contact with his employees. When the air conditioning broke down, he dashed out to buy Good Humors for the entire staff. Such gestures serve as an amusing reminder that the publisher is descended from the Guggenheims and the Strauses, old East Coast families noted for their philanthropic activities. Straus put up $50,000 to help start FS&G after World War II. He insists that he does not subsidize the company with...