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...Sweet (as opposed to sour) Kraut," the "Duck" and "Vaya Con" are Hunt's code names for Gretchen Klapfor, Leslie Voit and Anita Diaz, respectively. All three runners suffered injuries last year but Hunt says they have great potential to boost this year's squad. (In case you didn't figure it out, Diaz' nickname dervies from the Spanish saying "Vaya con Dios", which means "go with God." Hunt says, "If she ever becomes captain, I can tell the whole team, 'Vaya con Diaz' and they'll have a great leader...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harriers Go Fishing for the Big One... ...As Women Harriers Hunt Big Game | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...Sweet (as opposed to sour) Kraut," the "Duck" and "Vaya Con" are Hunt's code names for Gretchen Klapfor, Leslie Voit and Anita Diaz, respectively. All three runners suffered injuries last year but Hunt says they have great potential to boost this year's squad. (In case you didn't figure it out, Diaz' nickname dervies from the Spanish saying "Vaya con Dios", which means "go with God." Hunt says, "If she ever becomes captain, I can tell the whole team, 'Vaya con Diaz' and they'll have a great leader...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harriers Go Fishing for the Big One... ...As Women Harriers Hunt Big Game | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...influences and more opportunity to travel abroad. "For the first few years, the quality of life improved markedly in Poland," recalls one Western diplomat who served in Warsaw. "He enjoyed a measure of support that transcended anything during the Gomulka years." But by the mid-1970s, things began finance sour under Gierek too, as the country went heavily into debt to finance his ambitious but ill-fated plans for industrial modernization. Gierek began depending on an old Communist standby, exhorting people to work harder, produce more. When Pope John Paul II gave a speech extolling the virtues of hard work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Gierek: Good Will Is Not Enough | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...that sour note ended the Democratic Convention that President Carter had hoped would give him a flying start in his attempt to come from behind to catch Ronald Reagan. The four days in Madison Square Garden hardly did that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Madison Square Garden of Briars | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

Further on is the "Park," a summer hangout. It is two blocks wide and looks like a maximum-security recreation facility in a tough prison: sour, graffiti-covered concrete and steel mesh fencing. The two basketball courts are always jammed, and there are always a couple of broken syringes on the ground. On summer evenings it throbs and shakes as hundreds of teen-agers bop ecstatically to deafening Latin rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Bronx: Campe | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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