Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DiNicola made the team as a flyweight, which means he had to keep under the weight limitation of 112 pounds. He went through grueling workouts wearing a rubber suit and spent a lot of his free time in a sauna. "It was a tremendous ordeal," he said, "but that's the way it is in a mateur boxing today. Each class is filled with guys who are tremendously built for their weight category...
...federal examiner in 1971 and Comptroller Heimann this year both reported that Lance had been technically in violation of this civil statute, since an overdraft is, in effect, a loan. Maryland Republican Charles Mathias Jr., mixing metaphors, termed the practice of letting Lance's campaign committee "write rubber checks that wouldn't bounce, like the goose that lays the golden...
Electricity was cut off for 25,000 utility customers, and 16,000 phones were knocked out. Those services resumed within 48 hours, but the cleanup would take longer. Miller Nichols, whose father developed Country Club Plaza, slogged through the area in high rubber boots and pledged, "We're gonna bounce back. By Thanksgiving you'll hardly know that anything happened...
...BASED ON ACHIEVEMENT. So proclaims a sign posted outside the small, red brick headquarters of the superintendent of schools for Greensville County, Va. (pop. 16,000). Inside sits Sam Owen, a folksy, pipe-smoking administrator who four years ago announced that he was fed up with handing out "rubber diplomas" to high school graduates who could barely read or write. Greensville is one of the poorest counties in Virginia, and at the time the 3,700 stu dents, 65% of them black, in its integrated school system ranked in the bottom third on national achievement tests...
Nonetheless, Mayor Hofheinz strenuously opposes forming a civilian board to review complaints. Local attitudes he believes, are such that the board would be little more than "a rubber stamp for the department." Says he: "I know how this city works...