Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radcliffe opened with a power 20 and took a slim two-seat lead over Brown. Rowing at the strong pace of 35 strokes per minute for the bulk of the 1200-meter race, Radcliffe slowly increased the margin by taking occasional power tens.
Picture Prudential Center milling with tens of thousands of people, all happy, some waving balloons or shirts. Now add foil-like capes to hundreds of them, so that it seems the Pru is teeming with muscled Martians. And you have it--the aftermath of the Boston Marathon.
The power tens and 20s should have a strong psychological effect, but should not disrupt the boat's rhythm, Syttone said, adding. "It's good that we got it out of our system before Yale."
ASIA. East Germany's most recent aid efforts have supplemented the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Planes from the GDR have flown medicine and other supplies to Kabul, and have started to return to East Berlin a number of Afghan wounded. East Germany is reportedly helping the Kabul government revamp...
From the lowliest bureaucrat to executives in the boardroom, tens of thousands of Japanese eventually get involved, directly or indirectly, in the formulation of policy, either through the study groups or perhaps the nation's ubiquitous, highly effective industrial associations. Their job is to lobby the interests of member...