Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't out in front for long, though. Teammate Schuler really poured it on at the end and moved from fourth place to second in less than a quarter of a lap. As they came down the stretch, Schuler and Weber were running neck and neck, but as the finish line drew closer, Schuler outkicked Weber and took first place with a time...
...really dominated was the 1000, The Eagles took first and second, but Peter Johnson gave them a good race, pushing them until the very end. Crimson thinclad Paul McNulty took an early lead but relinquished it to Joe Concoran and Ross Muscato of B.C. early in the third lap. Johnson came from way back to challenge the B.C. duo but finished two-tenths of a second behind Muscato...
...runner Fernando Bouz took the lead early in the 3000, followed closely by a Crimson trio of Weber, Peter Jelley and Andrew Gerken. It soon became a three-man race between Bouz, Weber, and Jelley, and coming into last lap, Bouz was first, with Weber trailing by a few steps. One hundred yards into the last lap, Weber picked up the speed and passed Bouz on the last turn, breaking away from him in the stretch. Weber finished the race with a time of 8:18.2, just nine-tenths of a second off the Harvard record...
...Laffer curve, they say, fell off the table and onto the lap of America. The details of that encounter grew larger than life, as Wanniski used the editorial pages of his newspaper to spread the doctrine of balancing the budget by cutting taxes. Laffer meanwhile became the guru of the cult--young and virile, he embodied the youthful energy that massive taxcuts and comprehensive deregulation could unleash, a spirit of enterprise and discipline that would signal the awakening of a new America. Crackpots, more conventional economists called them, but the three set their nets out and fished for disciples, drawing...
...felt less intimidated by the Eagle now. I strode securely through the line, smiling self-assuredly as I watched train after train leave the loading point and inch its way up the first rise. I laughed nonchalantly as I buckled my seatbelt and pulled the safety bar toward my lap. I thanked the attendant when she wished me a pleasant ride...