Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CARL LEWIS, TRACK AND FIELD...
...least in the U.S., by a fairly uniform obscurity. Except for two weeks every four years, the Olympian is roundly ignored. Thanks to lavish surpluses from the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, amateur facilities and finances have improved. But even in the glamorous -- meaning profitable, marketable -- pursuits like track and field, serious money touches just a few. Maybe only the top performer in only a third of the events is truly thriving. Most Olympians just...
Inevitably, some staffers fall out of favor. Says another former employee: "Only the best survive. At Nomura, one mistake and you're out." Not out, exactly, since Nomura, like most large Japanese companies, guarantees lifetime employment. But "failures" find themselves on a track to nowhere; they become what the Japanese call madogiwa-zoku, or those who sit idly by a window. More than a few failures have moved on to rival companies and report that they do not for a moment miss their life at Nomura. Says one: "It's a rare Nomura man who has a good career...
CUNY officials say they have an ongoingpetition with the state to restore senior collegestatus, which would mean a dramatic increase infunding. Nonetheless, some professors still feelthat their parent school has lost track of them...
...itself. Rather than create the entire 360 degrees horizon, they will concentrate their imaging resources on the narrow cone where the pilot is looking at a given moment. Link's new ESPRIT (eye-slaved projected raster inset) system uses an infrared scanner mounted in the pilot's helmet to track his eye movements. Then it projects a detailed, high- resolution picture in the pilot's direct line of sight and a fuzzier, less detailed peripheral image...