Word: tikhonov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alas, just when youngsters of the world had gotten their hopes up that future field trips to the zoo might be a little more fun, Russian zoologist Alexei Tikhonov announced that he believed the block of ice really contained nothing more than a couple of hairballs and a few bones. The strangest twist of all, though, was Tikhonov's suggestion of what should be done with the maybe-mammoth-maybe-algae-filled block...
...opinion it's better to keep the block as it is in its museum [and not investigate its contents], because if we try to take it apart and then find some pounds of wool and two or three mammoth bones, all the journalists will be very sad," Tikhonov said...
...Russian side and the Americans on how to promote the team. Or more important, on how to make it self-sufficient. Nights of rinkside fun and fantasy have already cost upwards of a million dollars. On the day of a game last week, Warshaw approached Russian coach Viktor Tikhonov with a request from one of the team's sponsors, Pittsburgh's Iron City Beer, to have advertising patches put on the jerseys. Tikhonov, who is revered in Russia for his guidance of the Red Army and Olympic teams, turned him down. "It's bad luck to do anything like that...
...nearly two dozen of their former colleagues. Such Unified Team stars as Alexei Jamnov, Alexei Kovalev and goalie Mikhail Shtalenkov know that stellar performances will take them from Moscow's food lines to the land of sports agents and deferred-annuity packages in seven figures. Unified Team coach Victor Tikhonov, who prefers the discipline of the old order to the chaos of the new, is trying to make teenagers play like Heroes of the Republic -- or whatever it is called this month. The Russians are merely following the lead of the Czechs, many of whom have already fled...