Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five of the 13 Crimson riders in the Ascot show, for example, were beginners. And while some members of the Harvard equestrian club own horses, the majority train on schooling horses that the club leases from a private barn in Millis, Mass...
...staffers at the network's largest news bureau. He called Howard Stringer, who had just been made acting chief of CBS News, and suggested that the two ride the Metroliner together in order to talk. For Stringer, then a leading candidate for the job of CBS News president, the train ride was apparently a success. "It was clear that Tisch had gained a great deal of respect for Stringer," says a CBS correspondent who attended a dinner with the pair. "We knew then the job was Stringer's to lose...
...After my freshman year [of high school] I decided to get serious and train a lot harder," he explained...
Clockwise, like Peter Seller's The Party, is a comedy of slow self-destruction. Mr. Simpson merely misses his train, and the inevitable chain of disasters begins, reaching a comic critical mass in a mud patch in the English countryside. On his journey into an ordinary man's heart of darkness, he incurs the wrath of wife, ex-lover, police, and hapless passersby, and attracts the affections of one of his older students. The climax at the headmasters' conference is a hilarious recreation of Simpson's schoolroom with adult students, bringing the plot into a neat full circle...
...know where I'll be next year, but I hope to work something out that will allow me to train seriously," Gompers said. "I'm still building, and I'm going to continue to race competitively. Right now I'm aiming for the '88 [Olympic] trials in the marathon...