Word: heel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson's inability to score runs on a consistent basis has been its Achilles heel all season long. Harvard has scored better than five runs 10 times in 1998, but it has also failed to score one on nine separate occasions...
...known as Alpha to turn the U.S. business around starting late this year. A coordinated line of shoes, apparel and equipment (including watches and eyewear), Alpha represents a tripling of its R.-and-D. investment since 1995. In shoes, Nike is spreading air around, moving the cushioning from the heel through the midsole. It promises a form-fitting heel, more flexibility and reduced weight of shoes in all the categories...
...tennis racquets, fiber-glass vaulting poles, high-backed ski boots--the change makes everyone queasy. But performance trumps sentiment. The sport of speed skating is at one of those pivotal junctures, with good old tradition being upended by a Dutch contraption called the clap skate. Unlike the conventional skate heel, the heel of the clap skate's boot detaches from the blade like a one-way seesaw. The skater's heel lifts off the blade, lengthening the blade's contact time on the ice, then the blade snaps back to its original position with a noisy "clap." The result...
...year-old Marine would periodically be required to strap himself into the tiny pod of a spacecraft simulator and wait for technicians to set it spinning in three dimensions at speeds exceeding 30 r.p.m. Using nothing more than a joystick, Glenn would have to bring the tumbling cockpit to heel. If he succeeded, he would continue in the program. If he failed, he could be bilged...
ITHACA, N.Y. -- It looks like Jim Hofher won't mind if someone calls him a Heel...