Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winds with weather balloons. Before long, the winds did shift and pick up a little, but they were still outside NASA's criteria for a launch. After a detailed analysis, the mission- management team agreed that the shuttle was not endangered. Astronaut Robert Crippen, charged with making the final go or no-go decision, had no qualms about waiving the wind restriction. Less than an hour after Discovery finally lifted off, an hour and 38 minutes late, clouds moved in, and a bit later heavy rainstorms pelted the cape...
...space agency displayed caution -- and in the view of some critics, excessive caution -- in preparing to resume shuttle flights. Time and again during the past year, as problems cropped up during tests of new and redesigned shuttle equipment, officials pushed back Discovery's launch date, from February to August, finally settling on Sept. 29. Even during the final stages of the countdown, mission manager Crippen polled top weather advisers individually before waiving the restriction about the winds aloft...
Onlookers at the men's platform-diving final knew what should happen. But would it? The days are gone when Greg Louganis competed one notch above everyone else. He had taught the world to dive at his level, and now teenagers from the Soviet Union, East Germany and especially China threatened to beat him. At 28, Louganis is a superbly fit adult male; his imitators tend to look like underclassmen at a military school. But after nine dives he was 3 points behind Xiong Ni of China, young-looking even for his 14 years. Xiong's tenth and last dive...
...after they had already made it into the medal round. Throughout the Seoul competition, the U.S. had been spurred on by the pitching of Abbott and Ben McDonald and the hot bats of outfielder Ted Wood and first baseman Tino ; Martinez. A Seattle Mariners draft choice, Martinez sealed the final victory with two home runs and four RBIs. Introduced to the Games as a demonstration sport in 1904 and reintroduced in 1984, baseball will at long last become a full-fledged Olympic event in Barcelona...
...Maxie Baughan is a cult hero in Ithaca. N.Y. Baughan, an eloquent pigskin orator, was a defensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions before taking the Cornell helm in 1983. The closest he came to winning an Ivy title was in 1986, when his squad lost to Penn in the final weekend. He is 22-29-1 at Cornell and 2-2-1 against Harvard...