Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors to keep the medicine chest stocked, believing that they would all help her win. She believed as well that the drugs were nothing to worry about. When her mother questioned her about them, Dressel replied, "These are all harmless drugs. All athletes take them. It's really nothing special." No single drug she took was blamed for her death, but it is worth noting that one of the drugs she reportedly received was Stromba -- a trade name for stanozolol, the steroid that was found in Ben Johnson's urine test...
...rearrange the Central Committee bureaucracy from some 20 departments to at least six. That streamlining sent a clear message to conservatives that the party chief was determined to pick up the pace of perestroika and make bold changes at the very top. Said Gorbachev on Saturday, at a special session of the 1,500-member Supreme Soviet (parliament) called to ratify the party changes: "The people understand our difficulties but demand more decisive and energetic efforts...
While the other astronauts continued to check out Discovery's systems, Pinky Nelson began the first of eleven science experiments: growing crystals, which form more precisely in zero gravity, of specialized proteins such as gamma interferon and an enzyme found in the AIDS virus. By studying the crystals, scientists at the Center for Macromolecular Crystallography at the University of Alabama-Birmingham hope to learn more about the structure of the proteins, which may enable researchers to create new disease-fighting drugs. Other experiments scheduled during the mission included the production and study of crystalline organic thin films, evaluation...
...basketballers, Seoul proved to be a painful split decision. The American women, sparked by 1984 veterans Anne Donovan and Teresa Edwards, broke away against Yugoslavia to win their second straight gold medal, 77-70. "This one's more special than '84," said Donovan. "All the best teams were here, especially the Russians." The U.S. rolled over the Soviet women in the semifinals, 102-88, and the gold-medal game was largely an anticlimax. The U.S. men, surprisingly, never made it to the finals. Despite having eight first-round N.B.A. draft picks on the team, they were ambushed in the semis...
There was also a split for the U.S. volleyball teams. The women finished a disappointing seventh, but the men, who have been training as a unit since 1985, crushed the Soviets for gold. "We have special cohesion from working together over a long period of time," explains powerful spiker Steve Timmons...