Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's lightweights can't boast of the same recent successes that their heavyweight counterparts can. But based on steady improvement over the course of the last two seasons, their preseason hopes are just as high...
...were to venture down to Newell Boathouse these mid-March Jays, you'd find Harvard's oarsmen less concerned with national titles than with destroying teammates in that fearsome spring ritual known as seat-racing. But once heavyweight coach Harry Parker chooses his eight, you can bet the boathouse mortgage that the Crimson will be among the fastest crews on the river...
...last five years alone, Crimson eights have claimed national titles three times, in '83, '85, and '87. Eastern Sprints crowns in '83 and '85, and a victory in the grandaddy of 'em all--the Henley Regatta Grand Challenge Cup--in '85 are evidence that the Harvard heavyweight program is consistently producing top-flight crews...
...lifts off exactly on schedule. On board with Bush are 18 aides, 15 Secret Service agents and three reporters. The Vice President sits in a swivel chair in the front cabin with former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. Lehman, champion of the 600-ship Navy, is Bush's heavyweight sidekick for the day (yesterday it was Barry Goldwater). When Lehman mentions that Michael Dukakis advocates saving $18 billion by eliminating two carrier task forces, Teeley, who has been sitting in on the conversation, immediately sees it as the perfect item to highlight Bush's speech at the Ingalls shipyard...
...week began a three-year study, for which they received a $300,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, to closely examine the effects of exercise on "elite oarswomen," who are female athletes between 20 and 30 years of age and are competing for spots on the lightweight or heavyweight national rowing teams. The research, which should explain why only some exercising women experience the menstrual dysfunction that can lead to a reduced cancer risk, will include studies on the amount and location of fat present in the bodies of participants, as well as body fat's effect...