Word: jump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite missing the 1500 and 3000 with a strained tendon in her calf, Jenny Stricker managed to win the 5000. Erin Sugrue displayed her versatility by placing second in the high jump, and third in both the triple jump and 55-meter hurdles...
...finished the indoor season in fifth place (out of 10 teams) at the Heps, despite several key individual performances. Co-Captain Doug Boyd (first in high jump), Cliff Sheehan (first in 1500 and distance medley relay, third in 3000) and Paul Kent (fourth in 5000, sixth in 3000) performed well, but most events ended without any Harvard runners in the top six scoring places...
Boyd (who tips the scales at 205 pounds) is "pound for pound the best high jumper in the country," Haggerty says. In 1985, Boyd placed first at Indoors and second at Outdoors in the high jump...
...Salvador, and driving on through Guatemala and into Mexico. The prospect of an armed Communist bulwark on America's southern flank is what Reagan dreads most. But the governments of Nicaragua's neighbors do not seem as concerned, in part because they believe the U.S. would immediately jump to the rescue. "We're not really afraid of a Sandinista invasion," says one Honduran military officer. "They wouldn't make it to Tegucigalpa before the 82nd Airborne got here...
...down Madison Avenue, cocaine has become almost a currency in advertising agencies. Coke for models, photographers and artists is buried in budgets. Copywriters use cocaine to jump-start their creative juices. Independent producers supply it to agency representatives on location. In a survey of 300 advertising directors conducted by Advertising Age magazine in August, 45 reported cases in which cocaine had been used as under-the- counter compensation. Sometimes, ad agency employees hire production companies to make commercials only if the firms offer bribes of cocaine...