Word: sec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band, 160 ft. into the sky at 45 m.p.h. and four Gs. And then, dear Lord!, you slam back down at negative gravity, your body pleading to soar through the restraints. Up and down you go a few more times in decreasing extremes. The whole thing, which lasts 31 sec., is a great, bearable kick. It's like experiencing, at warp speed, a manic-depressive attack. It is, one imagines, a lot like being inside Bob Stupak's head...
...YEAR NOW, EHTIOPIAN DISTANCE RUNNER HAILE Gebrselassie has looked little short of superhuman. Last summer on the track he was undefeated in races at four distances and set world records in three. His 5,000-m record of 12:44.39 bettered the previous mark by the biggest margin (10.91 sec) in 63 years and is widely regarded as the greatest track performance in history. This winter he competed indoors for the first time and set two world records, again by stupendous margins. He talked of running the 5,000 and the 10,000 in Atlanta and looked a prohibitive favorite...
...that included three Kenyans. But at the start of the final loop he caught a spike on a log barrier and stumbled into the man beside him, defending champion Paul Tergat of Kenya. Tergat recovered and accelerated into the lead, but Gebrselassie seemedto lose heart, trotting home fifth, 44 sec. behnd Tergat...
...visible than the Church Lady dancing with a life-size taco. Kroyer notes that the networks have powerful economic reasons for getting ever cozier with advertisers. "With more networks and TV channels chasing the same dollars, [TV executives] are willing to give more than just basic airtime for 30-sec...
...Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) excluded the proposal as a voting issue from the May shareholders meeting after PepsiCo applied for an exemption on the grounds that its sales in Burma were less than five percent of net earnings and gross sales...