Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard track star Cliff Sheehan earned All-American honors over the weekend with a second-place finish in the mile at the NCAA national track and field championships at Oklahoma City...
...Drug Enforcement Administration. The South Florida Task Force, launched by President Reagan in March 1982 and headed by Vice President Bush, has brought more personnel and high-tech gear to the task. AWACS-type aircraft and three tethered balloons --soon to be eight--provide radar to help authorities keep track of nearly every plane and ship that moves through the region...
Paffenbarger and his colleagues have used the Harvard sample, which is relatively easy to keep track of, for various health-related studies. But they caution against applying the results too specifically to the general population. The alumni group, for example, includes no women and is primarily white. Further, in terms of intelligence and affluence, "the bulk of these men are cut from the same cloth," says Paffenbarger. "In general, they live longer than the average Caucasian American of comparable age." On the other hand, somewhat surprisingly, the rate of suicide among the Harvard graduates was 50% higher than that...
...Administration has offered a simple rationale for its aid request: only through the "two-track approach," a combination of military as well as diplomatic pressure, can the Sandinistas be forced to permit the democratic pluralism that was promised by their 1979 revolution and end their support for Communist revolutions elsewhere in Central America. To persuade Congress that he was in fact pursuing both tracks, and to underscore the connection he sees between the Philippines and Nicaragua, the President last Friday appointed as special envoy to the region Diplomat Philip Habib, who had hours earlier returned from his troubleshooter mission...
...Billy Olson, 27, and Joe Dial, 23, of the U.S., and the U.S.S.R.'s overarching Sergei Bubka, 22. Since the start of the year, the three have bettered one another's indoor records six times, and during the past fortnight they have gone height to height in U.S. indoor track-and-field meets from New York to California and back again. The visiting Bubka emerged on top, winning three of the five meets and twice setting new records, the last at 19 ft. 6 1/4 in. Despite earlier cross-country tensions among the three, Bubka observed diplomatically at the finale...