Word: margarete
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...Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington and J.F.O. McAllister/London
...many as occur in the men's leagues. For women who don't work, tennis is their only outlet. There is no definite reward system in being a mother. With tennis, there is a definite reward system."... One who thinks cutthroat competition for women is bad is anthropologist Margaret Mead. She admits that if women turn their backs on the home and childbearing, they may need sport to give them confidence in their bodies, as men have done since the beginnings of society. But she thinks Americans are terrible sports ("We're always saying, 'Kill the umpire!'"), and she wishes...
Wills-Lenglen was a great rivalry, and King-Margaret Court was a great rivalry; but Lenglen sipped brandy during changeovers, and King admits she couldn't powder the ball the way today's women can. What Navratilova taught Evert says that no woman before Martina--the original Martina--hit the ball hard, really hard. And no one since has survived without hitting hard. Also: six of the Top 10 at Flushing Meadows have won Slams, and the injured Mary Pierce would have made seven. There is power; there is depth...
...Alaska in the spring would necessitate abandoning the ABM pact by late fall. Russia made no official reply to the announcement. BRITAIN Tory Story The battle for leadership of the Conservative Party heated up, as ballot papers were sent to 300,000 party members and former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major weighed in behind contenders Iain Duncan Smith and Kenneth Clarke, respectively. In the candidates' first head-to-head television debate, the fault line once again developed around Britain's relationship with Europe. Duncan Smith suffered a setback when he was forced to sack one of his campaigners...
...Reported by Matthew Cooper, Douglas Waller and Margaret Carlson/Washington