Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called "T Party" included a race across. Boston Harbor, where participants either rode their bikes, took the cycles in a canoe, or (by special dispensation) traveled with their bikes on the subway to the opposite shore. Although the event was supposed to publicize the need for cyclists to have access to the subway, the canoe proved the fastest way across the harbor...
...Medalists Steve Hegg and Connie Carpenter-Phinney pedaled to victory in last summer's Olympics, Huffy bicycles were a big winner too. The largest U.S. bikemaker, Huffy had invested two years and more than $600,000 to design and build the special cycles that Hegg and Carpenter-Phinney rode. Now Huffy is using its Olympic achievement to pump up Christmas sales. "I don't think anyone envisioned our success from the Olympics," says Huffy President Harry Shaw III. "A year ago, people thought we were crazy...
...just rode them out, trying to keep the teaching activity going whenever possible, but we didn't call in the police, like some places around here...
...side sat an aging Ronald Reagan, still tall in the saddle, holding forth a future rooted in a mythic past of heroic patriots and open opportunity. He rode into the election with several large achievements: a real grip on inflation, an undeniable economic recovery and a substantial defense buildup. But he bore the burden of a monstrous deficit for whose solution he offered only the Band-Aid of a balanced-budget amendment. He may frequently have been wrong on his facts, but he spoke to the wordless groping of millions of Americans seeking comfort in the future. Reagan wanted...
Last year Cauthen, who at 5 ft. 5 in. is four inches taller than when he left, rode 102 winners and was voted jockey of the year by a racing magazine. In the Newmarket Champion Stakes, he steered his way through 18 horses to go from last to first in the final two furlongs. "As near to being a masterpiece as is possible in race riding," said Racing Writer Brough Scott. A computer chart showed that a horse had a better chance of winning with Cauthen aboard than with any other jockey, including the legendary Lester Piggott. Piggott...