Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This week was a dress rehearsal for Redwood Shores [next weekend's west coast regatta]," heavyweight Captain Juliet Thompson said. "Last year, we raced MIT at a 30 [stroke rating], went to Redwood Shores and were overstroked, so this year, even though we were lengths ahead of MIT, we wanted to stick to the race plan...
Radcliffe was two seats ahead of MIT after the first 10 strokes of the race, quickly opening up and gaining open water by the 500-meter mark. From that point on, the lights were basically racing against the clock...
...told them that if they started to open up, they better open up every 500," lightweight Coach Holly Metcalf said. "The goal if they were ahead was to follow the race plan, move consistently and not get lulled. Only between the 500- and 750-meter mark did it get a little jellylike. I was happy with the race...
Unless Soviet youth grow up with computers, the country will be at an increasing disadvantage in the global technological race. The U.S.S.R. must rapidly automate and computerize its industry if it is to increase productivity and manufacture goods that can compete in the world market. And without exportable products, the Soviet economy will never earn the hard currency it needs to finance modernization and growth...
Complicating matters further, Fay decided to race the U.S. in a 132-ft. monohull, instead of a 12-meter (65-ft.) boat like those used since 1958. With time running out, Conner and his team knew they could not design a sufficiently speedy monohull vessel of their own. So Conner opted for a smaller, swifter, multihulled catamaran. Justice Ciparick decided to wait to see the outcome of the race before ruling on the legitimacy of the U.S. entry...