Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another bowl of grits won't kill anyone," said Ron White, assistant commissioner of the Texas department of agriculture. Maybe so, but how about another slice of birthday cake? Unsure, state health officials in Florida swept grocery-store shelves of some shipments of Betty Crocker cake mixes, Gold Medal flour, Dixie Lily corn grits and Martha White's hush puppies, among other goodies...
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia-Just one game into the Olympic hockey tournament. Team USA is an all or noting situation. After the emotion-packed gold medal performance in Lake Placid four years ago, the 1984 Olympians may not even be in medal contention this time...
...Spence won the John Clark Bates Medal, which is awarded biannually to the best economist in the nation under 40. He is best known for his work on industrial behavior and developing industries...
...skiing billboards is a long-term job. The makers of France's Rossignol skis employ teams of scouts who follow the racing circuits looking for potential stars. Austrian manufacturers provide free gear to nearly 600 promising youths, some under the age of ten. Comments Christl Haas, a gold-medal winner in the 1964 Innsbruck Games: "These toddlers all have at least three pairs of skis and a company representative to wipe their noses...
During more than 40 years at Harvard--30 of which he spent as a professor of both biology and geology--Barghoorn earned several awards for his work, including the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal given by the National Academy of Sciences in 1972. Barghoorn was also Curator of the Paleobotanical Collection at Harvard since...