Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toddler had lost interest and was running alongside the track; the executives deliberately looked away from the screaming match. "I saw them. I saw them--they paid. Whatcha you talking about," said a girl about the age of the older boy who appeared behind them. "Your thing, it just doesn't work right. It's not fair." The ticket seller glared at her, and grudgingly let the kids through to catch the train...
This became the tenor of the track meet. Sprinter Carl Lewis, the quadruple gold medal man of 1984, said, "The Russians just cheat." Reminded that it was a Jamaican from Canada (Ben Johnson) who dusted him in the 100 -- for the second time this year, incidentally -- Lewis reasoned, "They'll try to help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak...
...Take a look at all schools, don't get caughtin the prestige track," said Klein. "You've got togo in confident you made the best decision youcan, please keep an open mind...
...found the babies even shared the same name. "Both are very strong babies, with sturdy legs," says Ashford. "It would be nice to see them both running." Till then, the mothers will take care of that. Ashford, competing at Eugene in her fifth sprint since returning to the track last February, finished third and posted her best postpartum time. Slaney ran a mile a few days after Ashley's birth, and "expects to be back in shape in a couple of months." Set your stopwatches, and not just to time the baby formula...
Spaniards responded by giving the Socialists 44% of the vote and 184 seats in the 350-member lower house of parliament. While the seat total was 18 fewer than in the 1982 landslide, the party kept its legislative majority. "These results confirm that we have been following the right track," said Gonzalez. Yet the party's swerve toward the center created some doubters. Many of the lost Socialist seats were picked up by the Democratic and Social Center Party of Adolfo Suarez, which boosted its representation from two seats to 19. Suarez, the first elected Prime Minister after...