Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson coach Bill McCurdy, who put his team through a moderate workout yesterday, hopes his team makes a fast start in today's race. Harvard went out quickly Saturday, but it may have turned out to be a handicap in the middle of the race...
Goldberg's campaign handlers have wisely kept to a minimum his set speeches before large groups, where his pedantic delivery is at its worst. The candidate himself has learned to handle his handicap with humor. He describes a scene where he asks his wife if he really is as stuffy as pictured. She replies: "I don't think so, Mr. Justice...
...story whose hero, Pablo, shares important characteristics with the author and illustrates Che's own lifelong obsession with overcoming challenges and seeking social approval. Like Che, who grew up in a middle-class Buenos Aires family and was asthmatic, Pablo is citified, deracinated and afflicted with a physical handicap: poor sight. In the story, entitled Prueba Superada (Passing the Test), Pablo becomes almost overwhelmed by fear, anxiety and doubt after joining a guerrilla column in an unnamed Latin American country. On one terrible march, his shoes give out, his feet become badly blistered, his rifle jams and he breaks...
WEST GERMANY'S Rollei-Werke for years has been losing sales to Japanese rivals, whose low wage costs enable them to sell cameras for less than half the price of a Rolleiflex. Fighting to overcome that handicap, Rollei executives recently decided to try to beat the Japanese at their own game. The German firm is investing $12.6 million in a new plant in Singapore. There workers will turn out cameras for sale in the U.S. and East Asia at wage rates only one-sixth as high as in Germany, and two-thirds below those prevailing even in Japanese camera...
...vertebrae, and for a while it was doubtful that he would be able to engage in any sport, much less championship golf. The back eventually healed, but he has had to avoid contact sports and now wears a half-inch lift in his left shoe. Because of his physical handicap, he could never become a powerhouse like Nicklaus and Palmer, booming out 300-yd. drives. "I'm strictly a popcorn hitter," he says. Yet he learned to keep his drives straight and developed a deadly accurate short game. There was something else, too: the power of positive thinking...