Word: switzer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appropriately attired women are dashing toward fitness as never before. As recently as 1967, though, an irate official tried to rip the cardboard number from the sweatshirt of a runner labeled K. SWITZER near the start of the Boston Marathon. He had discovered that the K stood for Kathrine. Kathy Switzer, then 20, managed to elude the man and went on to finish, the first woman with a number in the marathon's history to do so. Today there are 15 million women runners in America, and Switzer, 34, is the head of Avon Cosmetics' $5 million sports...
...rather than spread the money around the nation. Nevertheless, orchestra officials are already mulling over initial money-saving measures, such as ending some outdoor concerts this summer and joint ventures with the Opera Theater of St. Louis. "We'll be hurt, but we'll survive," says Susan Switzer, the symphony's public relations director. "Other orchestras may not be so lucky...