Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over in a heartbeat, the race has three distinct stages: start, acceleration and deceleration. The start itself has two components, the reaction to the gun and the angle of takeoff. Says Brigham Young University track coach Willard Hirschi: "If you come up too quickly, you lose acceleration. If you lean too far, you can stumble. It is like an airplane taking off--there is an ideal angle at which you can generate speed." To get up to speed--about 23 m.p.h. at their fastest--runners have to be careful not to try too hard. As Hirschi says, "Speed and effort...
Payne is a tall, lean, all-American man: a jowlier Tom Brokaw in a red, white and blue tie. He shakes hands firmly and stands with his face too close to yours. When he's kept waiting, he whistles impatiently and claps one hand over a closed fist. He has spent his life emulating a father who asked him, "Did you do the best you could?" Young Billy could never answer yes. He's still trying. Despite a deadly family cardiac history and, at 48, two bypasses to call his own, Payne is, to say the least, driven. "You wake...
WILLIAM REHNQUIST Chief heads Supremes who often lean his way, thanks to earlier conservative appointments...
...best woman distance swimmer the world has ever seen is lean and serene these days, digging cheerfully just now into her between-workouts morning diet supplement of--yes, cholesterol enthusiasts--hash-brown potatoes. And a fried egg, over easy. And a couple of griddle cakes, each the size of a catcher's mitt. All of which will jiggle around the middle of her breakfast companion, who's having the same. But in the white-hot furnace that drives Janet Evans, it will burn to ash well before her three hours of afternoon tank time are finished and her daily weight...
...Security Council (similar to the U.S National Security Council)," reports Zarakhovich. Zyuganov has so far not made a counteroffer, but one possible move might be to offer Lebed the prime ministership. Lebed hasn't taken the plunge yet, but Zarakhovich reports that he is not likely to lean towards a Communist Party he views as a lost cause. Whomever Lebed decides to support, Zarakhovich says he may not be able to deliver the vote. "Lebed's multi-faceted personality attracted various people from different social groups," says Zarakhovich. "His supporters are likely to split down the middle: either pro-Zyuganov...