Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although he is counted as a good prospect for a bronze medal, he is convincing when he says that competing, not winning, is his reward. Merely to be in the same race with the great Finnish sculler Pertti Karppinen, gold medalist in 1980 and the favorite this year, justifies all the training, says Biglow. Athletics for money, as a business? Biglow finds the concept distasteful. But, he knows, his case is special...
...tops, who figures that he has an excellent chance for gold in the 90-kg weight-lifting event. Winter is quick to add that although he was the nation's best lifter, pound for pound, at the May trials in Las Vegas, he would not be a medal prospect if the Soviet-bloc countries were coming. "Maybe a few American medals will help revive interest in the sport in the U.S.," he says wistfully. "It's been pretty depressed lately...
...what fencers call, admiringly, "stealth," an ability to strike with strategic deceptiveness. She is very determined and temperamental enough to berate officials who make calls against her. But she has never gone beyond the semifinals in an international competition, and although she counts herself a good prospect for an Olympic medal, the form sheet suggests that fencing is still an Old World sport. The best women who will compete at Los Angeles are the Rumanians, Italians, French and, now, the Chinese. (The missing Bulgarians and Soviets would also have dominated...
Many politicians were naturally terrified at the prospect of runaway reform. To win the new voters' support, Congress hastened to appropriate $1.25 million for health education for mothers and children. Michigan and Montana passed equal-pay laws. By 1921, some 20 states had granted women the right to serve on juries. But it took only a few years for professional politicians to make three key discoveries: 1) many women did not vote, 2) women did not vote as a bloc, and 3) they often voted exactly like their husbands. The bosses could sigh with relief; the status...
...Even though women have led other nations, the prospect of a woman President still makes some people-women as well as men-anxious. Why are there concerns...