Word: sec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free at Seoul, perhaps her best race ever, and one that would haunt her, Evans hollowed out East Germany's big, powerful Heike Friedrich with an astonishing 4:03.85, an entirely unexpected clocking that knocked 1.6 sec. off her own world record. Her time in the 800-free victory that followed was a mere Olympic record of 8:20.20--3 sec. short of the world record that she had set some months earlier. It was worth little more than a nod. Janet had taken care of business, but gee, better luck next time. And indeed in 1989, in Tokyo...
...that was it for supernatural performances. Since then no one, not Evans and not anyone else, has lowered any of her three great records. At the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the winning time for the women's 400 free was 4:07.18, nearly 4 sec. slower than Janet's time at Seoul. And the winner was not Janet Evans. She came in second in 4:07.37, behind a relatively unknown German, Dagmar Hase...
Wrong. The 30-sec. spot, now airing on KRIS-TV, an NBC affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas, is a landmark: the first deviation from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States' self-imposed ban on TV advertising, adopted in 1948. Reaction was swift. The ad "could open the airwaves to a flood of hard-liquor ads," fumed Democratic Congressman Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts, who is well aware that his family's fortune was fortified with liquor profits. He has introduced a bill that would not only ban TV ads for hard liquor but also restrict those for beer...
...Jones industrial average fell 24.75 to 5,628.03. As an SEC investigation comes to a close, the technology-stock Nasdaq composite index fell 24.56 to 1,183.06 to end at its first close below 1,200 in more than a month. The index has lost more than five percent of its value since June 5. The NYSE's composite index fell 1.34 to 355.58; the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 3.10 to 662.06; and the American Stock Exchange's market value index fell 1.54 to 588.99. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a margin of almost...
...brand-new Olympic track-and-field stadium got its first full-dress workout with the paying public last week, thanks to the Atlanta Grand Prix international meet. Carl Lewis, at 34, clocked under 10 sec. in the 100 m for the first time since 1991. Michael Johnson came from behind to win his 19th consecutive 200-m victory on what athletes deemed a fast track. The stadium has just one hurdle remaining before the Olympics: next month's U.S. trials...