Word: sec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours later, Lewis proceeded to clock 19.75 sec. in the 200, missing the record held by Italy's Pietro Mennea by a slim .03 sec. The day before, his 10.27 time won the 100 meters (his best is 9.96 sec., .01 off Jim Hines' world mark). The University of Houston senior shrugged off his Indianapolis performances. "I don't worry about times and records. I'm my own competition," he said. "And I think there are going to be some absolutely unheard-of things coming from...
...diaries and turned them down, primarily because there was insufficient time to conduct its own investigation into their authenticity. A subheadline on Newsweek's cover asked ARE THEY GENUINE? and the magazine devoted several paragraphs of its story to quoting disbelievers. In advertising for the story in 30-sec. television commercials in twelve cities, however, Newsweek omitted that cautionary line entirely. In full-page ads in six major U.S. newspapers, any doubts the magazine may have had were limited to a question buried in the fifth paragraph: "Are they real?" Said Newsweek Editor Maynard Parker, who supervised the package...
BORN. To Barbara S. Thomas, 36, a lawyer who is only the second woman ever named to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and at the time of her appointment in 1980 was the youngest SEC commissioner ever, and Allen Lloyd Thomas, 43, a lawyer in New York City: their first child, a son; in New York City. Name: Allen Lloyd Thomas Jr. Weight...
...between 70? and 80?. Thus he averages a 40? profit on each toy. So far, Hakuta has spent nothing on advertising or promotion. "It just goes to show you don't have to be a big company like Mattel," he says. Last week, however, a campaign of 30-sec. TV commercials in association with Wendy's hamburger restaurants was launched; it is running in prime time and between Saturday-morning cartoon shows in 466 markets...
That appointment now seems questionable. SEC documents obtained by Common Cause magazine and the CBS-TV show 60 Minutes revealed that Government investigators also learned that Reed had backdated the required brokerage forms and signed the names of two other people. Reed says that they and six others were to be the deal's beneficiaries. The U.S. Attorney in New York has launched a "pre liminary investigation." A House subcommittee is looking into why Clark appointed Reed to the sensitive NSC assignment, given Reed's problems with the SEC, and a Senate subcommittee is investigating the SEC...