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Horner won four events on the day, sweeping the 100 meters (10.92 seconds), 200 meters (22.13 seconds), long jump (22-ft., 10 1/2 in.), and anchor leg in the first-place 4x100 meter relay (42.99 seconds...
...think they suffered a letdown after we caught them so quickly," Metz said. "Their strategy seemed to be to try and jump out to a quick lead and hold on for the win, and they seemed frustrated. Princeton's having a few troubles this year, switching personel a lot, although their cox did tell me that this was their best race of the year...
American television manufacturers were the first to fall. Then Japanese firms rolled through markets ranging from autos to semiconductors. Now many Washington politicians fear that U.S. plans to develop the FSX fighter jet with Japan could give Tokyo a vital jump start in the aerospace industry, one of the few high-technology fields in which American companies still dominate. The growing outcry has transformed the proposed jet, an advanced version of the F-16, into a powerful symbol of the rising tensions between two countries that are close military and diplomatic allies but also archrivals for the economic leadership...
...reduce the country's debt or the interest charged. It remains doubtful, however, that the IMF deal, which is part of a new U.S. policy announced last month by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and which could reduce Mexico's debt load by as much as 20%, is enough to jump-start the country's stalled economy. And even if it can, there is no guarantee that the effects will trickle down to the middle- and lower-class Mexicans who need help desperately. Says a U.S. State Department official, with considerable understatement: "The average Mexican will have to ask himself...
Yale won the 110 high hurdles, hammer throw, javelin, long jump, and pole vault, and the OxfordCambridge team won the 800 meters, steeplechase, 5,000 meters and triple jump...