Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dreams of peaceful coexistence that the Games seem to promote. "The ideological differences between the Greeks of Sparta and Athens were fully as profound as those between the Soviet Union and the United States today," says Historian and Journalist I.F. Stone. "Nevertheless the Games provided the chief Pan Hellenic festival at which all Hellenic peoples came together under a kind of truce on war and politics." No sports fan, by his own admission, and no cockeyed optimist either, Stone nonetheless sees the early Games as "a symbol of badly needed unity among the peoples, just as the Olympic Games today...
...grew rapidly at the end of the decade, when airline deregulation permitted wide-open competition. By 1980 Air Florida was offering low-cost flights to major East Coast cities and to Europe, the Caribbean and Central America. But price wars blasted its profits, and aggressive rivals like Delta and Pan American flew off with much of the Miami-based carrier's business. Also damaging was the 1982 crash of an Air Florida jetliner in Washington that killed 78 people. Over the past three years the airline has had $59 million in operating losses...
...doping procedures are even more rigorous than the strict routine followed at last year's Pan American Games in Venezuela. Those resulted in the expulsion from the competition of eleven world-class weight lifters who were found to have detectable levels of steroids. One of them, American Jeff Michels, 22, subsequently appealed the decision and will be al lowed to take part in the Olympic Games. Under the I.O.C.'s new testing system, a representative of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee will contact all three medal winners, as well as a fourth competitor selected...
...Democrats of "bottling up" a Senate-passed crime-control bill and "falsifying congressional records." (A House Democratic staffer resigned last year after he admitted altering the remarks of G.O.P. members in hearing transcripts.) The Democrats had drawn first blood last month, when O'Neill ordered House cameras to pan the empty chamber during Republicans' postsession speeches, which were staged primarily for media pickup. In retaliation, G.O.P. members assembled video clips of O'Neill's fast gaveling on the podium, but decided that using them in ads would violate the House rule against employing shots...
...Neill reacted by ordering the cameras to pan the empty chamber in order to expose the young Turks' tactics. In his pique, however, the Speaker failed to notify the Republicans of the change. For that he later apologized to Michel, but the firestorm had been ignited. Republicans labeled O'Neill's action "camscam," and took to the floor in high dudgeon. What upset the Democrats, as well as Michel, is that the Speaker, who is supposed to represent the House as a whole, had joined in a partisan shouting match. Lost in the scuffle was the laudable...