Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sally Ride, 32, astronaut set to be the first U.S. woman in space on the second voyage of the shuttle Challenger, asked at a press conference if she will weep in tough situations: "Why doesn't anyone ask Rick [Hauck, her fellow astronaut] those questions...
...Officer and a Gentleman, audiences everywhere cheered and cried. If the 1940s-style sentiment was effective, the symbolism was apt: the military's "white knight" image, tainted for years by the stigma of the Viet Nam War, has been spit-and-polished. "Things have really changed," marvels Rick Field, a Navy recruiter in Longmont, Colo. "It's back to the days when the troopers are the good guys...
...lime drink ahead of Dr Pepper and stunned Coke and Pepsi, which insist there is nothing wrong with normal levels of caffeine. Last July, however, Pepsi introduced decaffeinated versions of regular Pepsi and Diet Pepsi, and both have done well. "They have gone far beyond our wildest expectations," says Rick Sharp, marketing manager of Pepsi-Cola Bottling in Los Angeles. Pepsi now has 50% of the decaffeinated cola market, which reached about $200 million last year...
Harper's Foundation President Rick MacArthur nonetheless praised Kinsley and said the board was paying his tenure the utmost compliment. "As his successor," said MacArthur, "we want another independent, unconventional thinker...
Howard Sands was upset in the singles by 40th-ranked Rick Rudeen. Sands has dropped from eighth in the nation to a tie for the number 14 spot in two weeks. He said he won't get over the loss for a while, and might have still been thinking about it during the doubles match he and Scott won. "This has happened to me only a few times in my life, and I remember each time," he said. The first seed had been up 5-4 in the second set, but lost the tie breaker, then went down early...