Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the scores in team competition count for half of a gymnast's total in the all-around finals, it appeared that Comaneci had no chance to repeat as gold medalist. Yet she reeled off a 10 on the parallel bars and began the last rotation as one of three women with a shot at top honors...
...fared so poorly that Silverman has already fired three producers. The latest executive calamity comes at the same time as the start of the 1980 Olympics, which NBC was to have covered and which promised to be one of the network's greatest achievements. Silverman hoped to repeat his performance of four years ago, when he used the Games to help catapult then lowly ABC to No. 1 in the ratings...
Around 5 p.m., Dunayev rehearses his program on-camera. "If it is good, I use the tape," he says. "If not, I do it live." Then he writes an entirely new script for his 10 p.m. show. "It's hell," he says. "You can't repeat either the first program or the evening news [a half-hour show aired at 9 p.m.]. Ten or 15 years ago, it would have been easy, because you could say, 'The bloody imperialists did such and such.' But now we realize it's not black and white...
...major embezzlement of state property, can even bring death. Judges generally do not hand down the long prison hitches that U.S. courts often mete out in anticipation of early parole, but Soviet convicts are more likely to serve full terms. And they toil hard, both in the prisons where repeat offenders or dangerous criminals are kept and in the work camps housing most of the convict population of about 2 million...
...ought to recognize its complicity in the fate of Iran and publicly repudiate the Shah; the hostages' return might well be furthered, but more importantly, Iranians and non-aligned nations everywhere would see that America understands the criminality of much of its past, and resolves not to let history repeat itself...