Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movement is being helped by dramatic advances in equipment and prostheses. Says Kirk Bauer, executive director of NHSRA: "The top is literally being blown off of what we can do because of the new high-tech equipment." Ten years ago, wheelchairs were unwieldy 50-lb. clunkers. Now, thanks to lightweight steel alloys and thin high-pressurized tires, they are sleek and maneuverable chariots, weighing a mere 10 lbs. Space-age plastics and other materials have made artificial legs and feet lighter, stronger, more flexible and resilient, and much more comfortable to wear. At least six models of prosthetic feet...
...closer look. Regatta-goers pack Lars Anderson Bridge. Crew shells are stacked in preparation for the long trip home. Cambridge resident Julie Scholl, 9, talks to mounted police officer Ron Bernard and his horse Cheyenne. Spectators watch and cheer on a favorite boat. The Harvard men's varsity lightweight eights stroke toward the finish...
...Independent Colleges and Universities, in explaining the Cavazos selection earlier this year. "It's quite obvious that was a very important factor in the decision." Other higher education officials took the same condescending view towards Cavazos, viewing him as a "token" member of the Cabinet and as a lightweight who would meekly preside over the Education Department during the twilight of Reagan's term...
...Catharine's R.C. of Canada regained the lightweight eights title after a two-year lapse by edging Harvard. The Canadian boat covered the course in 16:00.92, Harvard...
Trevino, no lightweight himself, is out of the van and running a couple of hours later when a gang of smugglers has been tracked to a mesquite thicket. Suddenly shots ring out and bullets buzz overhead. There is shouting in English and Spanish. One armed suspect has been shot in the arm and another captured unhurt along with a dozen bags of marijuana, worth about $250,000 in south Texas (and about twice that in New York). Judging by the haul recovered from the brush, eight or nine other "mules" made it back to the river. It is the third...