Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jones ended the season with a second-place finish in the 10k. The eight-person field came down to two runners, Jones and eventual winner Jackie Goodman of Oklahoma State. Jones and Goodman finished 15 seconds ahead of the third-place finisher...
...Soviet Union is just a piece of a new picture. Cleared to participate in the next Olympics, the National Basketball Association plans to contribute one team to a Milan tournament in October and assign two others to open next season in Tokyo. Japan's association with American baseball, of course, goes back to Babe Ruth. Just last November, on a typical All-Star tour, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing...
Montreal and Mexico City will likely join four U.S. and four to six European cities in a twelve-game season leading to a summertime World Bowl. Towns tired of hoping for N.F.L. expansion franchises (Jacksonville, Memphis, Oakland and Baltimore) would seem the prime American candidates for the auxiliary league. London, Dublin, Frankfurt and Milan are among the European possibilities...
...heart of the probe are two perplexing questions. Have post-Watergate reforms designed to shield the IRS from political abuse unintentionally allowed corruption to flourish by exempting the agency from proper oversight? And is the agency, headless since Commissioner Lawrence Gibbs resigned at the height of the tax season last March, using those reforms to prevent the subcommittee from delving into the wrongdoing...
...workmen, more than 700 miles of coastline remain polluted eight weeks after the spill. Two annual migrations - of economic importance to Alaska have also been damaged. The flocking of tourists to the sound has slowed. And though inspectors who examined fish caught at the start of the salmon season last week pronounced them clean, not everyone was convinced. Alaskan red salmon was selling for $2.50 a lb., down from $3.50 last year. These days, many Americans would rather be safe than sorry...