Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest swung to their teammate Brigitte Oertli (two silvers) and to Canada's new hope, Karen Percy. Skiing with a broken left thumb, she took a bronze in the downhill, scraped out a fourth in the combined with her left pole flopping uselessly behind her as she ran the slalom, then took another bronze in the super...
...flew home, again before racing. Injuries, explained Chinese officials. Then there was the emigration of Soviets en masse from Calgary: 55 left prematurely, some of them ski jumpers returned to sender because, a Soviet official said, "as the competition was postponed, they could not participate anymore." Canadian immigration authorities ran a phone line for athletes who "needed help," but no applications for asylum were announced...
...South Dakota, candidates were whistling Dixie last week, jostling for advantage on the presidential campaign's biggest battleground. Dukakis, who easily won the Minnesota Democratic caucuses with 34% of the vote, concentrated on the South's urban areas and ethnic voters. Native Son Gore, who ignored Iowa and ran poorly in other Northern contests, finds himself playing catch-up with the better-known contenders. Richard Gephardt won big in the South Dakota primary (with 44% of the Democratic vote), but he trails the others in recent Southern polls...
...only sign that the 1988 Jackson campaign is a far cry from the seat-of-the-pants, roller-coaster operation of 1984. The dilapidated Lockheed Electra turboprop (which later crashed) has been replaced by a DC-9, complete with computers. Schedules, just vague advisories in the last campaign, which ran on Jesse Jackson time (three hours behind all known time zones), are sometimes adhered to. Church choirs warming up the crowd are still crucial, but now so are the hard-nosed strategists busily color-coding districts on wall-size maps. "Eighty-four was a crusade," says Ann Lewis, a longtime...
...with an awkward precedent as it ponders what to do about Swaggart. After Swaggart demanded that leaders of the denomination's Louisiana district act, he summoned Gorman to his home in Baton Rouge for a confrontation. Swaggart insisted that Gorman be given no special treatment just because he ran a big church. Gorman was immediately defrocked...