Word: hauls
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...surviving commies in Cuba didn't do half badly. They may have failed to lift the prized baseball gold from the Yanquis, but finished in eighth place overall with 29 medals - a remarkable achievement for an impoverished country of 11 million people. Indeed, if each country's medal haul is divided by its population size in millions (which is, after all, its pool of available talent), Cuba comes out the second-place country over all with a remarkable 2.6 ratio. The runaway winners, of course, would be Australia, whose 58 medals divided among 18 million people would give...
...Russian Rocket Alexander Popov each found himself bettered in one race or another--nobody caught Krayzelburg. Indeed, after a rough start, the rest of the U.S. team outswam the favored Australians, who performed before raucous hometown crowds. Swimming is the Olympics in Australia, yet the U.S. medal haul was the biggest since the boycott-depleted 1984 Games in Los Angeles...
...talking Quann, there was Ukrainian medley swimmer Yana Klochkova, 18; Romanian backstroker Diana Mocanu, 16; Hungarian breaststroker Agnes Kovacs, 19; American sprinter Anthony Ervin, 19. And, of course, there was Australian Ian Thorpe, 17, who after his relay swims finished with three gold and two silver medals, the biggest haul of the meet...
...Russian Rocket, Alexander Popov, each found himself bettered in one race or another - nobody caught Krayzelburg. Indeed, after a rough start, the rest of the U.S. team outswam the favored Australians, who performed before raucous hometown crowds. Swimming is the Olympics in Australia, yet the U.S. medal haul was the biggest since the boycott-depleted 1984 Games in Los Angeles...
...retailers) are giving a big boost to the industrial REIT sector. It's up 27% year to date, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. Unlike, say, the hotel industry's cycle of boom and bust, industrials tend to offer more stable returns over the long haul while serving as a hedge against inflation...