Word: sec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow's Lenin Stadium. In something of an upset, Ovett roared past Nikolai Kirov of the Soviet Union in the final curve, held off Coe in the stretch, and won the gold medal in the 800 meters. The winning time of 1:45.4 was a full 3 sec. slower than Coe's world record. That pace favored Ovett's driving, elbowing style. "I'm a competitor," he said beforehand. "I like to beat the other people in the same race...
...final decision to compete, which he announced in March, set the stage for an epic confrontation in the 800 and 1,500 with another nonboycotting Brit, Steve Ovett, 24, who on July 1 shaved .2 second from Coe's mile record of 3 min. 49 sec. Hungry for an international sports success, most Britons seemed to support Coe's decision. Still, young "Seb" came under pressure from boycott backers to stay at home. He handled it with analytical detachment, as befits a scholar-athlete with a double bachelor of arts degree (he studied economics, social history and political...
...shares traded on the American Stock Exchange had precipitously jumped from an average 7,000 a day to over 100,000 daily for a while. Investigators obtained a list of traders, and the trail led to Joanna Carson and the others. Under terms of a settlement with the SEC, the four insiders must turn over their profits to the original stock owners...
...major battery manufacturer-was low slung and wedgelike, with the sexy space-age acronymic designation ETV-1 (for electric test vehicle). The car has lightweight alloy wheels and plastic windows, and runs on modified lead-acid batteries. It is, however, slow as molasses: 0 to 30 m.p.h. in 8.8 sec., 25 to 55 in an interminable 17.6 sec. It can go only 123 miles at 35 m.p.h. before it must be recharged. The ETV-l's development cost: $6 million...
...record for playing the violin under water, Japan has come up with an entire underwater orchestra, a first. To raise funds for a local charity, a man and a woman in Des Moines lovingly sat in tubs of vanilla pudding for 24 hr. 34 min. 20 sec., the only record ever set for a pudding sit- but one that will no doubt be challenged...