Word: fitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highest in the U.S. Last week 600 workers turned up at a Marathon Petroleum plant in Garyville, La., responding to the company's advertisement to fill five jobs. In Texas, where the unemployment rate has reached 8.4%, Paul Rogers six weeks ago lost his job as an oil pipe fitter. Says he: "I'm 21 years old and have 44 years of this left. What will...
...intensive care last January and forced the Opera Company of Boston to postpone its season, friends feared that Conductor Sarah Caldwell had reached the tragic finale of a distinguished career. Instead, Caldwell, 61, emerged from the illness this month determined to change her tune and be fitter than a bass fiddle. Her goal: "To lose a zillion pounds and become the thinnest lady conductor--at least in Boston." She has already dropped 70 lbs. (from a reported 250) on a prescribed regimen that includes a 600-calorie-a-day diet and plenty of walking, treadmill exercise and tennis...
Born on Oct. 30,1908, in Samara (now Kuibyshev), a city 550 miles southeast of Moscow on the Volga River, Ustinov was the child of working-class parents. He began his career working as a fitter in a paper mill and as a diesel mechanic and went on to study design engineering in Leningrad...
...displayed by captain Leo Lanzillo. He remarked that "this is the second game in a row that every player on the field has had a good game. The momentum strong to an early and even though we didn't score, we showed some good flashes. We were definitely the fitter team...
Since Rose always seemed to be from another generation anyway, his formula for measuring eras may be authoritative. "The best then would be the best now, and the best now would be the best then," he says. Athletes are fitter today, obliged by the high stakes to train in the offseason. Mike Schmidt, the Phillies' two-time MVP, only 33 but allowed to contemplate Cooperstown, questions "whether Babe Ruth could even play now." A bit insulted, Rose responds, "Whatever the standard of the day is, the greats meet it. If .330 is leading, that's where Ty Cobb...