Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, Whitten almost decided not to go to last Sunday's meet because of a shoulder injury he suffered two months ago. Because of his injury, the breaststroke is the only stroke he can swim...
Behind Captain Terry Murray's fourth-place, 76-stroke outing, Harvard's five-man contingent fired a team total 392-20 strokes better than its showing a week ago at Princeton...
...heavies led off setting to a 35-stroke rating and racing the majority of the regatta at 33 1/2. By the 500-meter mark, Radcliffe was a length ahead of the Engineers and was able to continuously move away from the other two crews in the remaining 1500 meters to finish five lengths ahead of the UMass boat...
...This week was a dress rehearsal for Redwood Shores [next weekend's west coast regatta]," heavyweight Captain Juliet Thompson said. "Last year, we raced MIT at a 30 [stroke rating], went to Redwood Shores and were overstroked, so this year, even though we were lengths ahead of MIT, we wanted to stick to the race plan...
...Elektrosila plant. They have teamed up with ten other factories and six research centers in Leningrad to form a consortium to explore new manufacturing methods. They plan to sell their equipment in package deals so that customers can sign up for an entire power plant with a single stroke of the pen. Elektrosila hopes for a substantial boost in exports to raise the foreign currency the plant needs to buy up-to-date Western machinery. At the moment the factory has only 7 million rubles ($11.2 million) in hard currency, and "one good machine tool costs about 2 million rubles...