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Four years ago, Bunney was Connecticut State Champion in the half mile as a senior at Guilford High Just a few years later the Quincy House senior is once again the cream of the crop of his trade, the art of running faster than anybody else...
Bunney started out as a quarter miler in high school, but on his coach's recommendation, he decided to give the half mile a shot. "I really enjoy 1500 meters, but it's a bit too long," Bunney says of the change. "It's a different type of tired," he says about the quarter mile, but then again, "It's a longer being good...
Bunney first qualified for the Nationals in his second year on the Harvard team. But although he had been ranked highly in the Ivy League in both the half and quarter mile his freshman and sophomore years. Bunney maintained a healthy perspective on his chances when it came to national opposition. "Sophomore year, as far as the Nationals go, was a learning experience," Bunney says...
...consolation might be on its way Knowing very well that he is only about three seconds away from the U.S. Olympic qualifying time in the half mile, Bunney still entertains high hopes. It [the Olympics] is obviously always a goal. There is still time," he says...
Just keeping up with the deterioration of the highways will cost $2.4 billion in 1985, according to Staton, but a 1980 study showed that a least 30,000 miles of the system would have to be rehabilitated during this decade. Rehabilitation, of course, can mean anything from simple resurfacing to wholesale rebuilding--where resurfacing runs about $500,000 per mile and rebuilding anywhere from $5 million a mile in uncluttered rural areas to an "unlimited sum" for urban environs, Staron says...