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...other hand, Harvard's best attackers--sophomores Judy Collins and Penny Fairbairn--are back and more experienced. Also, junior backs Beck Stringer and Eileen Horwath are healthy for the first time in years, which should allow the Crimson to take the loss of Romano in stride...
Because having an executive director is essential for PBH to continue receiving grant money from organizations like Stride Rite, Ehrlich could not accede to Epps' demands...
...Minneapolis a day earlier, Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson looked on the bright side. "It takes time to hit your stride in a campaign," he said, ignoring Dole's 20-year quest for the presidency. "I sense that Bob is starting to get ready to hit his." That may be so. But Dole is so lame without a script that he might consider skipping the fall debates, where he may prove only that he'll never be ready for prime time...
...sister-in-law Bunny, who is married to John, is asked whether it had anything to do with her not having children. Bunny, who is religious and also childless, says softly, "We've discussed this off and on. She loves children, but she took not having them in stride. She never breathed the idea that God had another plan." Bunny pauses before finishing her thought, adding, "But women's arms are made to hold children. There's always an emptiness." When asked the same question about her daughter, Mrs. Dole's mother says flat out, "I don't think...
...track-and-field meet for Atlanta's Olympic stadium in May, two officials watch a Ukrainian pole vaulter prepare for his first jump. The vaulter has been rooted in hypnotic concentration for almost two minutes when, without warning, he explodes down the runway. His legs blur into the scorching stride of a 100-m sprinter, but his upper body is like no sprinter's on earth. It looks more like a bag of rocks lashed together with steel cable. He hauls all this bulk to the end of the runway, then plants 17 ft. of fiber glass into the ground...