Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tougher than finding it. So Professional Treasure Hunter Mel Fisher has wisely relied on a high-tech mediator. Last year Fisher discovered the sunken loot of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank off the Florida coast in 1622. He retrieved 118,343 items, including emeralds, gold bars and silver coins, with a potential worth estimated by Fisher at $170 million. Last week, after a 22- member committee assigned a value to each item, Fisher fed the data into an IBM computer, which apportioned the goods among 1,650 of the expedition's investors and employees based...
...love to be a mailman," Byrne, 34, sometimes thought as he was growing up. "Read postcards, walk around the neighborhood." If Byrne sent out cards of his own about his career, the messages might go something like this: "Heads bust out -- six of our ten albums go gold"; "Heads albums make the Top 20 (Remain in Light to No. 19, Speaking in Tongues to No. 15)"; "Hi everybody. Gone to Hollywood. Love, David...
...most dramatic appeal came in April 1985, on the eve of President Reagan's controversial trip to the Bitburg military cemetery in West Germany, where members of Hitler's SS are buried. At a ceremony to receive the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement, Wiesel, standing on the same podium as the President, implored him to call off the visit. "That place, Mr. President, is not your place," he said. "Your place is with the victims of the SS." Reagan went to Bitburg despite the protests, but Wiesel's plea had a lasting resonance...
...Ridley Grads, 1984 Olympic gold-medal winners, set a new course record at the 22nd Head of the Charles by covering the course in 14:20.16, four seconds better than the previous mark set in 1982 by the United States Naval Academy...
Perseverance and intense desire to win have characterized Parker's illustrious rowing career. After beginning to row at Penn in 1953, he went on to win the American single scull championship and single scull gold medal at the 1959 Pan American Games...