Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that confidence makes White a complete player to the point that her playing level doesn't change if the puck gets behind...
...discs remained mostly the playthings of film fans and technofreaks until CDs revolutionized the audio market. "The triumph of the CD is giving the laser- disc industry a tremendous help," says Kenichi Ohmae, a top management consultant in Tokyo. Voyager's Robert Stein is blunter: "At the consumer level, CDs completely saved the ass of laser discs...
...create rivalry among the teaching fellows. "It's sort of a shame to single out one teaching fellow when there are so many that are good," said teaching fellow David Fott. "Ideally it might be a good idea to recognize all the fellows who perform up to a certain level" he added...
...rooted so solidly in Saas-Almagell that he is not thrown off-balance by adulation and press clamor or an occasional run of poor results. This unbudgeable nature is the grounding, as the coach sees it, for Zurbriggen's most valuable quality, an eerie ability to concentrate at a level that shuts out everything except snow and gates and the fall of the mountain. He seems unaware of his competition until it is time to accept congratulations or grin and say, in a way that always seems genuine, that it really isn't so bad to be beaten by Muller...
...going to do a triple or a quadruple in one spot." Orser's confidence will be the key to whether he triumphs or stumbles. Although he has had a lock on the Canadian title for eight years, he has often been an also-ran at the international level. After taking the silver medal at the 1984 Olympics, just behind America's Scott Hamilton and three places ahead of Boitano, Orser placed second in three successive world championships. Last year he took the title...