Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mikhail Baryshnikov than Don Meredith Pairing off to use one another's backs as ballet bars, they stretched and flexed their legs, loosening hamstring and groin muscles that are always vulnerable to injury. In slow, progressive steps, they worked kinks out of their necks and backs. A perfunctory round of jumping-jack hops is the only recognizable survivor from football calisthenics past. "The wrong kind of exercise can cause injury," Verbruggen notes. "Deep knee bends alone are all right, but those duck-walks you always see teams doing will tear more cartilage in the knee than any game...
Consistently, she looks to round out her abilities. Haunted by a fear of being labeled a selfish player, she emphasizes her diligent attempts to learn how to master the team concept she seems to regard so highly...
Tiant, 38, entered the free-agent draft when the Red Sox management refused to offer him anything more than a one-year contract, because of his age. The herky-jerky motioned pitcher was not selected until the eighth round and by only one team--the Yanks...
...stable, face-to-ground position. My job is easy: merely to float while seven others "fly" to me, the first gripping my wrists, the next two docking between us, breaking our grip and seizing their own. The others come into the circle, one by one, until we are a round, eight-man "star," falling at 120 m.p.h. We hold this for 5 sec., then the eight others fly in, attempting to dock with their hands gripping our ankles, turning the star into a "snowflake." I look about and cannot help grinning at the wonder...
Whatever system eventually prevails, interest-bearing checking will spur another round of bank competition for new business and bite into bank profits. California's Bank of America, which is offering PATS at its 1,100 branches, reckons that the interest it will pay to PAT depositors will total $30 million annually and slice about 7.5% from earnings. Savings and loan association officials are also worried about this new round of competition for the savings dollar. Many are desperately hoping they will be allowed to offer checking-with-interest accounts of their own or other services that may help curb...