Word: rolf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cycling, hopped on his Kevlar-cycle for the 4,000-meter individual pursuit race. In this two-man event, a competitor chases an opponent who starts on the opposite side of the banked track. If he catches him, it's over; otherwise, the fastest time wins. Hegg took Rolf Golz, an experienced racer from West Germany by 4 sec. for the gold. After squeaking through quarterfinals in the team pursuit, where four-man squads shift leads to rest in the slipstream, the U.S. cyclists confronted the highly favored West Germans in the semis. The Germans, however, started too fast...
...firm of Rolf Jensen and Associates will test the University's $2 million system for sensitivity and stability, making sure that humidity and dust will not continue to trigger off the system. The company will make recommendations in mid-to late May, a spokesman said...
...Rolf Sellge, senior vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., noticed it as a sharp rise in the din outside his office. Traders at the International Monetary Market in Chicago responded to it with arm waving and raucous bids. In financial offices around the world, tensions rose as the news flashed across video screens and was relayed in frantic telephone deals: the price of the U.S. dollar was surging to record levels. The dollar fetched 8.06 French francs at the start of the week, the highest rate in more than 60 years, and also commanded 2.68 deutsche marks, a nine...
...charge of the detonation attempt, the first of its kind in Italy, was Rolf Lennart Abersten, 46, a Swedish engineer who has worked in Milan as an explosives specialist for the past eleven years. The temperature of lava sometimes reaches some 1800° F; to prevent the heat from setting off the charges, Abersten and his associates devised an ingenious protective system. It called for installation of four rows of steel tubes in the west side of the old lava wall (lava from the eruption was moving along the wall's east side). Each of the metal tubes contained...
...added that Volkswagen Secretary General Rolf Moller indicated that the company was "Firm about the name...