Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tarczy feels, however, that there is much room for improvement in his run support. He would like to work on his quickness and strength in order to bolster his ability to stop any momentum-gathering runner...
...Angeles Dodgers took a 2-0 lead over the St. Louis Cardinals last night on the strength of a fine pitching performance by Orel Hershiser IV. The Dodgers shelled Redbirds' starter Joaquin Andujar in the 8-2 victory...
...some line of dialogue, it is hailing its own perspicacity as well as the actor's. The weakness of Lily Tomlin's one-woman show, which opened on Broadway last week, is that it eventually indulges in just such a fawning congratulation of the ticket holders. The show's strength is that for most of the way it is an acerbic send-up of the current national selfishness, coupled with a knowing and ungooey lament for the loss of '60s innocence. It is hard not to like a show that says, "I personally think we developed language because...
...American companies manufacturing such products as basic steel, textiles and chemicals. Those require unsophisticated technology, and countries where labor costs are low can make them more cheaply. It now seems clear that the American economy overall will be stronger if corporations concentrate on products that maximize America's strength in high technology...
...youth has got fatter than it was in the '60s, according to HHS tests. Young people spend an average of 13 hours a week in sports or other exercise. They spend three to four times that watching TV and playing video games. Schoolchildren's scores are now declining for strength, power, speed, agility and cardiovascular fitness. The Amateur Athletic Union reports that 36% of youngsters meet its standards for push-ups, high jumps, long jumps, endurance runs and sprints. Just a few years ago, the number...