Word: medals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it would be a very unfortunate state of affairs if we didn't cooperate," says Avery, who last fall won the National Medal of Science for work in preventing infant lung disease. "The interdependence is pretty obvious. Industry can't treat any babies, and we can't manufacture pharmaceuticals...
...American and a sports fan, how could you stand to miss the controversy when our brightest gold medal hopefuls get a 2.2 in synchonized swimming from the judge from the Upper-Bavaria/East Hanover Coalition of Independent and Completely Autonomous Spaces of Partitioned Territory...
THESE ARE ALL great benefits. And if you order the Gold Medal package, you also get $75 worth of exclusive (voice-mail generated emphaisis) Olympic memorabilia. You can't get this merchandise anywhere else, not even on the Home Shopping Network. You also get a chance to enter the sweepstakes for tickets to America's more important sporting event--the Super Bowl...
...eventual fate, one thing is totally clear: the plotters have no rivals for the title of Bunglers of the Year. In fact, not just of the year. If there were such a thing as an Incompetence Olympics held every four years, the Moscow plotters would easily win the gold medal and set a world record that might last as long as Leapin' Bob Beamon's mark in the long jump...
...Darryl Strawberry) and has polished the skills of legions more who moved to California to train (swimmer Janet Evans, decathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, volleyball player Karch Kiraly). From title-winning ice skaters (Debi Thomas) to record-setting long jumpers (Mike Powell), from Olympic champion swimmers (Matt Biondi) to gold-medal skiers (Bill Johnson), California is the American sports machine. Nearly 30% of the U.S. athletes at the 1988 Summer Olympics were native or transplanted Californians. They won 30 medals -- 32% of the U.S. total...