Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They came out with the same big and strong pack as last year, but were able to outrun them until they gave up," Greg "Animal" Carey, who scored two tries in the contest, said...
...idea what they're getting into." Looking at it another way, people have all too good an idea of what they are getting into: a financial minefield. With an attorney's time now commanding $40 to $150 an hour, potential clients often fear, correctly, that fees will outrun any gain they might hope for by taking legal action. At $5 to $10 a copy, a how-to guide strikes many as the wiser investment. Other factors in the books' popularity: the post-Watergate tarnishing of lawyers' credibility and a general desire by people to take...
Stickwomen co-captains Elaine Kellogg and Chris Sailer emphasize Velie's consistency and her deceptive quickness, a quality which allows her to outrun her opponents. Kellogg elaborates, "One of Annie's greatest assets is that she doesn't look like she's moving very fast when in fact she is beating everyone...
...Afghanistan, where outsiders are no longer able to do much watching, the difference shows. Whatever story is there can't be covered properly. News must be gathered from diplomats, whose own movements are limited, or distilled from travelers, whose passionate descriptions often outrun their knowledge. The Associated Press hasn't been able to get anyone into Afghanistan since Edie Lederer, posing as a rug-buying tourist, traveled through the countryside last May. She came out with a colorful story and four rugs. In Iran, no American correspondent can get accredited to Khomeini's regime; to cover...
...gate No. 1 was Genuine Risk, the filly who broke a 65-year tradition to outrun the colts in the Kentucky Derby this year. In gate No. 2 was Codex, the California colt who beat Genuine Risk in the Preakness despite a controversial ride by his jockey that resulted in a foul claim and an almost unheard-of appeal for state authorities to overturn the results of a Triple Crown classic. Given the circumstances, Cassidy might have bypassed the traditional "And they're off!" in favor of a salutation more suitable to the ill will of a horse race...