Word: tick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Big Red was not as fierce an opponent as Northeastern, it came within one clock-tick of escaping with...
...Chicago Bud Light U.S. Triathlon Series, which attracted 2,400 professional and amateur athletes, the largest gathering a triathlon has pulled in so far. There was not enough excess body fat among the participants to fill a shot glass. One could not traipse a hall anywhere without hearing the tick-tick-tick of a ten-speed coming down hard on the heels. To the uninitiated, a crowd like this can be intimidating. And to an observer not possessed of a similar obsession, ceaseless talk of training techniques, water temperatures and times tends to get a little tedious...
...Chicago, the course put the contestants in nine-tenths of a mile of Lake Michigan, and had them biking 24.8 miles and running 6.2. The race was to start at 7:30 a.m., but the tick-tick-tick of the ten-speeds had already started in the dark two hours before angry black clouds roiled over the city's big shoulder, releasing heavy rains twice...
...surface, A.H. Robins of Richmond would seem to be a thriving company. Its popular products, including Robitussin cough syrup, Chap Stick lip balm and Sergeant's flea and tick collars, last year generated record sales of $632 million. But the 119-year-old pharmaceutical firm is now facing financial ruin because of a $3 item it has not sold in a decade: the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device. Deluged by more than 12,000 lawsuits charging that the Dalkon Shield was responsible for countless serious illnesses and at least 20 deaths among the women who used it, Robins last...
...music of nature -- the singing of birds, frogs or crickets -- or the wind. These people are biologically illiterate -- environmentally illiterate -- and yet they may fancy themselves well informed, perhaps sophisticated. They may know business trends or politics, yet haven't the faintest idea of what makes the natural world tick. We have biologists, of course, and biochemists. But we really need more bio-engineers, bio-lawyers and bio-politicians...