Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meyer, listed under exhibition status, nailed an unofficial first in the 400-yd. individual medley, breaking a dead heat with B.C. swimmer Nicole Engh in 4:37.36. The race was a flashback to the NCAA championships with the same two competitors duking for first...
Sweetser nabbed a first in the 100-yd. freestyle race. Ruppe captured her second race of the day, the 200-yd. backstroke...
Harvard's Suzanne Jones finished 37th in the NCAA five-kilometer race yesterday in Ames, Iowa, on the campus of Iowa State. She finished in a time of 17:22. Michelle Dekkers of Indiana University captured first place in a time...
...Jackson story is almost the reverse of Robertson's. He went further, gained more votes, commanded more attention and remained an important factor in the race right up to the convention. But his themes were not incorporated into the Democratic campaign after the convention. Robertson's cadres would be a quiet but key element in Bush's campaign, while Dukakis treated Jackson as an embarrassment, something he had to cope with, placate, keep a healthy distance from. This would lead him into his worst mistake, the renunciation of ideology, the attempt to build a middle constituency from scratch...
With Jackson, instead of trying to hide him for a while (as if that would affect the people determined to vote against the Democrats because of race), Dukakis should have shared the platform with him, saying the Democratic Party has nothing to hide -- unlike the Republicans, who were smuggling Dan Quayle into grade schools where girls could squeal and boys could ask questions as dumb as the answers. By the time Dukakis began to respond, it was by desperately imitating Bush's first flag rallies and by producing mean copies of the Horton ad, substituting victims of the federal furloughs...