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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others at Austin) could just as easily have been two years, and that would have been it," said American team member Nancy Hogshead, underlining the helplessness of an athlete before a body whose rulings can be both absolute and arbitrary. The AAU seems to have been purposely harsh in enforcing the code for the first time since it was adopted in August 1977. "It is our contention that these kinds of things won't happen again," declared Troy, in a telephone interview from his home in Chula Vista, Calif. "If it does, either the swimmers are pretty foolish...

Author: By John S. Bruce and Robert Grady, S | Title: Conduct Unbecoming | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Despite assertions by both Troy and subcommittee member George Haines, highly acclaimed coach from Foxcatcher A.C. in Philadelphia, that the vast majority of athletes and coaches applauding the rulings, there seemed to be some muffled dissatisfaction with the trivial nature of the offense in the one case and the harshness of the penalty in the other. "I don't see how they have the right to do that to Marc," said Gina Layton, who was unwilling to comment on her own case, but "had no idea why the penalties were so harsh for those two (Tallman and Foreman)." Layton...

Author: By John S. Bruce and Robert Grady, S | Title: Conduct Unbecoming | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...frame of mind marks a direct contrast to Carril's. But then again, these are men from different ends of the coaching world. Carril has lived with winners; he simply hates losers. McLaughlin knows all about winners, too--he coached for Notre Dame. But he never has a harsh word. Sugar coating often masks the realistic observations in his remarks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Simply A Question Of Style | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...thousands of dusty mud-walled villages. Rainfall is so irregular and water so scarce that for thousands of years peasants of these villages, armed with picks and shovels, have fought one another over rights to the flow of a tiny stream or canal. Summers bring searing heat; the harsh winds of fall and winter spread stinging particles of yellow dust from the Gobi, a desert as empty as Africa's Sahara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Beyond Confucius and Kung Fu | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Even most of the liberals on TIME'S board accept this harsh conclusion, though they add that if the wage-price guidelines can be made to work, the Administration and Federal Reserve Board will not have to crack down quite so hard on growth. Several argue forcefully that the Government should not try to head off the recession or aim at a vigorous expansion once it ends. "It would be a horrendous error to try to fight the recession by anything other than minor palliatives," says Democrat Eckstein, who heads Data Resources Inc., the nation's leading economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1979 Outlook: Recession | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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