Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speed-skating idol in Amsterdam long before 1980, Eric Heiden of the Golden Skates was an astounding discovery at home. One charm of the Winter Olympics is the inexpert opinion, maybe not completely mistaken, that the athletes in these neglected sports come close to some lost ideal, possibly even amateurism. Against a bright backdrop of ignored ski jumpers trying to fly with Finns, and irrepressible luge racers careering down icy troughs, young hockey players good enough to beat the U.S.S.R. can be taken for children, even after they disperse and report directly to the National Hockey League...
...Norway (50, 54, 45: 152) and the U.S.S.R. (59, 40, 41: 140). There is a rosy hope of adding 15 at Sarajevo, if that should be a huge concern. Cross-Country Skier Koch wishes the media would emulate the solitude of his sport or at least consider the Olympic ideal. "If 100 people enter a race," he says, "that means there have to be 99 losers. The worst thing that you can teach chil dren is that so many of them will be losers. Because then they won't even try. It's the striving, the attempt, the fight, that...
...Ideal Appointment...
...reaches of Egypt's economic mainstay, the Nile River. In recent years, Sudan has also served as a buffer against the designs of Libya's Gaddafi, whom Nimeiri derides as having "two personalities, both of them evil." Finally, Sudan's key location might make it an ideal staging area for U.S. forces in the event of a military threat to the Persian Gulf. Last February, President Reagan dispatched four AWACS surveillance planes to Egypt in response to anxiety about a Libyan military threat; in August, Reagan sent a personal message to Nimeiri assuring him that "aggression against...
...Australian team retrieved four eggs from the second woman's ovaries for the test-tube fertilization; with her permission, they collected one more to be used in an impregnation attempt in another infertile woman. The prematurely menopausal woman was an ideal recipient. For 2½ months she had been primed for a possible pregnancy with daily doses of the hormones estrogen and progesterone. She matched the donor in eye and hair color, body build, social class and education level...