Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agency automated the filing of complaints. MCAD staff members now feed a complaint directly into computers in the intake room, instead of typing up forms. The new system cuts down on processing time, making it easier for an investigator to check the status of a case or keep track of new information. "It could save up to three weeks in clearing cases out of here," Morris says...
...caused by a virus in the blood of some of the donors; mice injected with cells not exposed to this virus did not develop the tumors. The implications for cancer research could be enormous: the rapid growth -- in eight to 16 weeks -- would afford scientists a rare opportunity to track the emergence and spread of cancer. Said Mosier: "This is an extraordinary breakthrough. We may be able to dissect that tissue week by week to see what happens to these cells...
...addition to giving time to many marginal sports, NBC is airing a lot of preliminary heats and compulsory competitions, making the events just that much harder to keep track of. Why show swimming and rowing heats in which the top competitors, according to the announcers, are expending only enough energy to make it to the finals and purposely not giving their best performance...
...talented in this or that, who's smarter in some way, or richer, or faster, or just better suited. But can the thing that he was given be lined up against everything you've got?" At 6 ft. 1/2 in. and 195 lbs., much too thick and blocky for track, though not nearly brawny or flexible enough for the field, Thompson is ideally constructed for none of the ten events. "But I'm happy with my dimensions," he says. "I've got by so far. Would I change anything at all? Sure, I would. I'd take Paul Newman...
...City's high altitude that produced such rarefied records, three of them, at the 1968 Games: Bob Beamon's 29-ft. 2 1/2-in. long jump, Lee Evans' 43.86-sec. 400 meters and the U.S.'s 2:56.16 in the 4 X 400- meter relay. They are still three of track and field's greatest achievements...