Word: lifters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like a weight lifter who spends too much time in the gym, the U.S. dollar has become musclebound. It will take a further decline in interest rates and an international economic recovery before American currency can begin to be brought into balance with the rest of the world...
...city has offered to reinstate the permit if students meet with police to insure there will be no problems with public drinking, loud music, street lifter or sufficient police protection." Deputy Traffic Commissioner Paul Foster said yesterday...
...Findlay, Ohio, housewife who wrote T.S. Garp to complain that his books made fun of people's troubles. Win Berry's son John will receive no such mail. He lives almost entirely in his family. His preparation for life is largely symbolic; as a jogger and weight lifter, he has the strength and endurance to repel invaders and shoulder his relatives' burdens. Characteristically, he marries the most imaginatively troubled woman in the book, a rape victim who spends many angry years in a bear suit as a bouncer at a brothel...
...strongest man in the world? For more than a decade there has been no doubt: Soviet Weight Lifter Vasily Alexeyev, who has won two Olympic titles, set 80 world records and become familiar to millions of Americans each week in the opening seconds of ABC's Wide World of Sports. But Alexeyev, now a relatively ancient 38, is a lion in winter, plagued by injuries, disagreements with Soviet coaches and challenges from younger men. In one of the week's more dramatic moments, Alexeyev tried for his third Olympic title, and what would have been a startling comeback...
...single, flowing motion. He also seems slower today, getting under the bar late and, sometimes, not getting there at all. He starts to sweat profusely as he warms up, a bad sign that does not go unnoticed. He looks fine trying the clean and jerk, in which a lifter brings the bar chest-high, then heaves it overhead...