Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Nachtwey accepted the Overseas Press Club's (O.P.C.) Robert Capa Gold Medal for his photography of both combatants and civilians in Nicaragua and Lebanon. The award, named after the famed LIFE photographer who died in 1954 in Indochina, is one of the most prestigious in photojournalism because it is given for overseas reporting "requiring exceptional courage and enterprise...
...about the danger. But when a first-rate photographer is killed, as Newsweek's John Hoagland was in El Salvador in March, that's when you realize the great degree of risk we all court. Hoagland was no cowboy. Almost none of us is. The Robert Capa medal doesn't reward cowboys. It is given for practicing good journalism where risk is intrinsic...
...Cuban-born Salazar stood alone as the world's best distance runner. He held the American record in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, and had the world's fastest time in the marathon, in which he was undefeated. An Olympic gold medal glistered on the horizon. Then last year, Salazar began to run down and out. His inner fire seemed to have become self-destructive...
Asheuser Busch company paid for the players flight to Dayton, Ohio three years ago for the same national tournament where Harvard captured a silver medal behind the University of California at Berkeley, but this year the beer company is channeling its funds into publicity and television for the event...
...Administration that can't seem to manage a peace-keeping force or a budget, Egger is transforming tax administration against terrible odds and is on his way to being recognized both inside and outside the IRS as the best commissioner yet. Reagan should give him a medal...