Word: relayed
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...East German slump was most evident in swimming, as the women's team captured only one of 13 individual gold medals (vs. eight of 13 at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul) and lost a major medley relay to an American squad for the first time since 1978. Said Kathleen Nord, who won the 200-meter butterfly in Seoul but was shut out in Seattle: "People have turned against us. We cannot concentrate on competition when the shape of our lives is so uncertain. When we become part of the free world, we will have to find corporate sponsors." Daniela Hunger...
...suburban Chicago electronics giant (1989 sales: $9.6 billion) hopes to put in place by 1996 a network of 77 satellites that can relay phone calls to any spot on the planet. That means when the boss has a question, no Himalayan mountaintop or African jungle encampment will be beyond the reach of the ringing phone. Named Iridium, for the chemical element whose nucleus is orbited by 77 electrons, the Motorola plan would constitute the first global cellular system. Calls would cost $1 to $3 a minute, compared with about 50 cents a minute for cellular calls within urban systems linked...
Television and radio news floods the airwaves; major events from across the globe pop instantly onto home screens; computers and fax machines relay information in a flash. But anyone who thinks the media boom has created a nation of news junkies needs to readjust his antenna. A sobering new study titled The Age of Indifference, released last week by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press, reveals that young Americans are barely paying attention. The under-30 generation, it reports, "knows less, cares less and reads newspapers less" than any generation in the past five decades...
...many coaches questioned Haggerty's decisionto have Rainey compete in six events, forcing thesenior to run 10 races in the two days. Thecontroversy exploded at the end of thecompetition, when the two time NCAA championanchored the 4x400 relay after the Crimson hadalready clinched the title...
Harvard's victory over the Bruins in the4x100-meter relay, which was the first runningevent of the finals, set the tone for the entiremeet...