Word: medals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like Kerrey's willingness to stand up for what he believes in. During the Gulf War, for example, Kerrey was one of the few senators who spoke out against the war. (He won a Medal of Honor in Vietnam, where he lost a leg as a Navy SEAL...
...might have been expected to break Beamon's record, Lewis was it. He is the king of track and field. Earlier last week Lewis proved he could still be the fastest human alive, when he set a new world record of 9.86 sec. to take the 100-m gold medal at the World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo. And even though the muggy, sea-level Japanese capital was hardly ideal for breaking the long-jump record, Lewis was going to try. In an astonishing series, he turned in the greatest sequence of long jumps ever recorded...
...scant supply. The drop in world oil prices has drained petro-revenues by two-thirds, and most of the remaining earnings go to service the $25 billion foreign debt. "When I see the poverty in the streets, I feel ill," says Zena Haraigue, who won Algeria's highest medal as a freedom fighter. "The government filled its pockets and its stomachs, and now they ask what's wrong with their young people...
...later, David Letterman says, "Before we continue, I think we should congratulate our friend Jay Leno for being selected as the host of The Tonight Show. And the good news for us is, we get Stump the Band." This hoariest of Carson time fillers is no silver medal for Letterman, in his 10th year as star of his own NBC chatfest. The world had long known that the anvil-jawed Leno, Tonight's exclusive guest host since 1987, was bound to succeed Carson. But press tattle hinted that Letterman, who gave Leno his first sustained TV exposure, was furious...
...think that receiving an award from the Commerce Department would be honor enough for any corporation. According to the Texas attorney general's office, you would be wrong. Last October General Motors' Cadillac division won the government's Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the right to mention the medal in its advertising -- a right GM exercised. The campaign had immediate results: lawyers for Texas complained that ads citing the award violated the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Newspaper spreads boasted that "167,000 applicants" had vied for the Baldrige when in fact only 97 had applied, and that...