Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questions raised have revolved around eligibility, broadly defined: Who can enter what events? In the biggest case, 82 women runners from 21 countries, including U.S. World Record-Holder Mary Decker, were trying to have 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter races for women added to this year's schedule. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, they argued that the International Olympic Committee "operates with a 19th century view of the place of women." Indeed, as late as 1952 there was an unsuccessful I.O.C. proposal to eliminate women's track and field completely. Although three women...
F.D.R. was a jovial fellow, Hopkins remembers, and often he would offer Hopkins a beer or a cigarette or both, which were the last things Hopkins needed while taking dictation. F.D.R. usually had his own cigarette going, with its long holder tilted up at the jaunty angle that photographers loved to snap. Howe frequently lurked near by with his head in his hands, a gloomy, silent witness to the enterprise...
...School in Nahant, Costin was a high school All-American and three time state champion in the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard individual medley. She was also New England and Region I champ in those two events, plus the 100-yard individual medley, and was the AAU record holder in all three...
...remaining 65 years on the lease to operate Texas Stadium, where Bright, 63, is shortly expected to announce a building boom in luxury boxes, the sale of which could bring $40 million (one stadium box recently went for $1 million). Real Estate Executive Craig Hall, 33, a 10% holder, said, "Nobody is looking to take large dividends. The investment will continue to appreciate if the team is allowed to maintain its standards of quality...
...holder of various Massachusetts high school hockey records--including most career points (289), most points in a season (102) and most goals in a season (62)--played in one Harvard game this year while stiff on disciplinary probation but before going on academic probation, sources added...