Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett found that the visit had a more immediate impact. "While the Administration has been attempting to be relatively cool," he reports, "there has been a lot of boning up for what can be some quite heavyweight diplomacy. It is an interesting reminder that policy and politics are never very far apart." Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, an arms-control expert -and author of the forthcoming Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control, contributed an analysis of prospects for the resumption of negotiations...
...could "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." The young Muhammad Ali dazzled all who saw him perform in the ring, where his dancer's footwork and lightning-fast combinations enabled him to win the world heavyweight championship three times. And out of the ring, his nonstop chatter, his doggerel verse and his insistence that he was "the greatest" won him worldwide affection...
...YORK -- Unbeaten Larry Holmes, casting aside Gerrie Coetzee, will fight James "Bonecrusher" Smith for the International Boxing Federation heavyweight title Nov. 9 when he continues his quest to catch the ghost of Rocky Marciano...
...YORK -- Former work heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was given test medications yesterday by doctors who said he was suffering from "Parkinsonism," or minor symptoms of Parkinson's disease...
...breaks went the Americans' way. Evander Holyfield, 21, an unheralded, hard-slugging light heavyweight from Atlanta who had won his first three bouts by knockouts, suffered a bizarre loss to a thoroughly outclassed Kevin Barry of New Zealand. Holyfield was disqualified for striking a blow after the Yugoslav referee had ordered a break. Never mind that the punch knocked out Barry; never mind that Barry had been fouling Holyfield and was on the verge of disqualification; never mind that Holyfield probably could not have heard the referee's command over the crowd noise. But do bring to mind...