Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mile relay, an official pulled Jackie Ball off the track and away from receiving the baton because he miscounted the laps of the incoming runner, Co-Captain Elizabeth Ross. The official apparently thought Ross had one more lap to go when, in fact, she was finished...
...meter run: Derrick Horner, HARVARD, 6.45. 55-meter high hurdles: Louis Rios, HARVARD, 7.91. 200-meter run: Derrick Horner, HARVARD, 22.09. 400-meter run: Mark Dunzo, M.I.T., 49-92. 500-meter run: Randy Lewis, Boston University, 1:04.22. 800-meter run: Terrence Dugan, Boston College, 1:52.25. Mile: Brad Schlapak, Northeastern, 4:11.7. 1000-meter run: Mark Gomes, Northeastern, 2:28.22. 3000-meter run: George Grant, Boston College, 8:19.25. 4-by-440 relay: Boston University 3:20.25. 4-by-880 relay: Northeastern, 7:52.27. Distance medley relay: Boston College, 10:11.36. High jump: Ken Moody, Boston College...
Though Kabul has not yet come under consistent, heavy military barrage, the city is vulnerable to attacks that may cut the Salang Highway, the 264-mile road that climbs the towering Hindu Kush and crosses long stretches of mujahedin-controlled territory to the Soviet border. In a move to push the guerrilla forces back from the highway, Soviet and Afghan troops last week shelled villages south of the Salang Tunnel, killing hundreds of civilians and refugees...
...stem the flow of drugs and illegal aliens across its 2,000-mile border with Mexico, the U.S. has resorted not only to armed patrols but also to fences, closed-circuit television monitors and electronic sensors. Now it is making a last-ditch effort -- literally. For one thing, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will expand its force of border patrolmen by a third, to 4,300, by year's end. On top of that, the INS announced last week that it plans to dig a $2 million ditch along a four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some...
...extensive subterranean projects without disturbing the people aboveground. The Tokyo Electric company already has a high-voltage power station right below a Buddhist temple. Engineers are confident that they can create enormous underground structures with little danger of cave-ins. They point to such construction breakthroughs as the 33.5-mile-long Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest underwater corridor, which connects Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido to the north...