Word: krona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...training, has been a kayak gypsy since she was 17. "It takes six to eight years to get really good," she says. She made the Olympic teams in 1976 and '80, supporting herself by lifeguarding, teaching school and selling handmade sweaters and caps. Every dollar and krona she has earned, she says, has gone into kayaking; "I've never bought a stereo...
...Nobel Prize carries a cash award of 1.15 million Swedish kroner, which until only a few weeks ago was the equivalent of $182,000. Since then the Swedish government, pressed by the rising value of the U.S. dollar as well as its own economic problems, has devalued the krona. When Stigler finally receives his award, he will actually get only about...
...thing, he is from Colombia, and Colombia has never had a winner. One of my many theories is that the Swedish academy picks the name of a country out of a ski hat and worries about finding a writer from there to shower with all those krona. One day Colombia will come up and Marquees will be it. Right now, though, he's just too young, Also, he spends too much of his time writing lefty journalism, In Stockholm, journalism in a dirty word, 14-1 on one of John "Here's some more Sophocles-at-Shea-Stadium" Leonard...