Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compulsion Dressel felt to dope is widespread and growing. So says Bruce Wilhelm, a weight lifter who competed in the 1976 Olympics and admits that he used steroids during his competitive days. "Sure I did. There's nobody in the world who hasn't. The difference today," says Wilhelm, now a member of the U.S.O.C. subcommittee on substance and drug abuse, "is that the dosages have increased ten- to 100-fold. It's crazy...
FACED with the specter of this violent, autocratic Silber, determined to destroy your social life, what would you do? The first thing that popped into my mind was to send thousands of angry students to Silber's house each night at 11 o'clock to make sure he was safe in his room and didn't have any after-hours guests...
...sure that if you go to a bank and ask for $10,700,000, they will ask you immediately how you are going to pay that loan back," said Councillor Saundra Graham...
Taxi driver Raham Dahalla, eyeing a darkening sky over Khartoum, hesitantly stuck his hand outside his cab window. "No more rain, please," he said. Sure enough, only a few drops fell this time. But even after the floodwaters subside, Sudan's political, economic and religious problems will be serious enough to engulf any government. For the majority of Sudan's 24 million citizens, the forecast is gloomy regardless of the weather...
...creaking knee, Jackie Joyner-Kersee won her heptathlon with a world- record demonstration of tossing and turning. "I'm sure I'm tired," she said, "but for some reason . . ." Before moving on to this week's long jump, she paused only to smile. "I'm blessed," she said. "You just don't know. To be able to reach for something you've been striving for for a long time. I feel good." Showing twice as much leg as usual, the whirlwind Florence Griffith Joyner won her 100, and if she missed her record she hardly cared. History's hurdler, Edwin...