Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Phillips stresses that fencing is both mental and physical, more so than any other sport. "You are constantly watching the other guy. You are constantly guessing what you're going to do and second-guessing how he's gonna react. And all the while, you have to be an athlete. It's not just brute athleticism...
...participants are unusually passionate about this rather obscure, unpopular sport filled with strange, hard-to-pronounce European names. "It is combat, and there's romance to it," says Arthur Phillips, the number-one foil fencer on the Crimson...
...sport of fencing has changed dramatically since that night 100 years ago. George Kolombacovich, one of the two head coaches on the Columbia team, points out that the sport is "much, much more athletic today and more physically demanding. The technique was 99 percent of the game...
...offer viewers a smorgasbord of programming for one monthly fee. Pay- per-view instead gives viewers a chance to select from a menu, paying only for the programs they want to see. Prices typically range from $4 or $5 for recent movies to $15 or $20 for concerts and sport events. Pay-per-view is still a pint-size player in the TV marketplace: only 11 million TV homes (out of 90.4 million) currently receive PPV shows, according to Paul Kagan Associates, a media research firm. But revenues are growing fast (from $88 million in 1987 to $200 million last...
...manufacturers promote their products at crank-it-up contests that rival drag racing as the hot rodders' sport of choice. Contestants pit their sonically souped-up cars against one another for cash, trophies and recognition. Last summer in Laredo, Texas, Tom Fichter of Houston broke the world's record when his $27,000 system pounded out Flashdance . . . What a Feeling at 154.7 decibels, more than twice as loud as the sound of a jet taking...