Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...separate paths through the summer track circuit, studiously avoiding head-to-head encounters while carefully selecting races where they have the best chance of breaking each other's world records. In 1979 Coe burst from obscurity by snapping the record in the mile, with a 3-min. 49.0-sec. performance in Oslo (only twelve days after setting a world mark of 1 min. 42.3 sec. in the 800 meters). Just before the Olympics last year, Ovett went to Oslo and marked Coe's record "return to sender" with a time of 3 min. 48.8 sec. They finally...
...became clear that this was Coe's year to write home. In June he broke his own world record in the 800 meters at a meet in Florence by 61/100 sec. Last week in Zurich, he broke Ovett's mile record, crossing the finish line in 3 min. 48.53 sec., 27/100 sec. off the old mark...
Lorenzo quickly acquired 48.5% of Continental's stock. In one hectic day of trading, he bought 830,000 shares of Continental just 30 min. before the market closed. The Continental-Western merger was dead, and a bitter takeover battle between Continental and Texas International was under way. In April two veteran Continental pilots proposed that company workers buy a majority of the firm's stock through an employee stock-ownership plan. Though skeptical of the plan at first, Feldman soon threw his support behind it in a last-ditch effort to stop Texas International. Lorenzo immediately challenged...
Most of the observations will be aimed at answering questions raised by the earlier flight, with special emphasis on the rings. During one 13½-hr. period, for instance, Voyager 2's cameras will be taking pictures every 3.2 min. The movie-like sequence should not only show the formation and disintegration of the spokes during each rotation but also help explain what forces are acting on them. One theory: the spokes are in fact composed of dustlike particles lifted out of the thin ring plane by electrostatic forces perhaps created by the faint light of the distant...
Just before the June 22 deadline, Lewis offered a $40 million package of improvements. It included a 10% pay hike for controllers who also act as instructors, an increase in the pay differential for nighttime work to 20%, from the present 10%, and a guaranteed 30-min. lunch period (controllers often munch sandwiches at their scopes when there is too much traffic for a break). Poli found the package insultingly stingy...