Word: olympian
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Fueling the lopsided preference for Reagan is a surge of good feeling. A full 74% of respondents said that things in the country are going "very well or fairly well." The rating is an Olympian 48-point jump from January 1981, when Reagan took office, and the highest level recorded since Yankelovich began tracking the nation's mood in May 1974. The optimism is surprisingly broad based. Even among those with family incomes of less than $10,000, six out often say they are upbeat about the nation. So do 90% of those who earn more than...
Crimson striker John Catliff almost had things up one minute later, but Schoen made the first of his 13 saves to deny the Olympian...
...used for the launching was the same kind of device that had shoved two satellites into uselessly low orbits last February. A second satellite was sprung successfully on Friday, this one employing the new so-called Frisbee launcher. The mechanism, designed especially for the shuttle, acts as an Olympian wrist, snapping off the satellite from the cargo bay in a slow spin that quickens to 30 r.p.m. once in space. The following day, a PAM-driven AT&T satellite was set free. Said Mission Control as the last cylinder twirled into the void: "That's three for three...
...terms of the Southland (7-Eleven) Corp.'s $1.2 million gift, every medal-winning Olympian was allowed to invite one guest on the caravan, and their choices were telling. Jeff Blatnick, the nation's most renowned Greco-Roman wrestler, asked Andrew Saris, the last man cut from the squad. Mary Lou Retton, whose gymnastics career required her to leave home two years ago, reached back to Follansbee, W. Va., for her old friend Lori Lombardi. Cyclist Steve Hegg's neighbor Doug Huffman used to pace him tirelessly in Dana Point, Calif. They went together to the parade...
...more welcome because it justified a decision to show up at all, disregarding the Soviet-sponsored boycott. If that were not sufficiently gratifying, the roaring ovation that greeted the team's entry into the Coliseum on opening day would have been enough to make any absent Warsaw Pact Olympian envious. More than any other visiting athletes, except perhaps the Chinese, the Rumanians in Los Angeles were America's favorite foreigners...