Word: unevennesses
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...hold their own with anyone in the world. That includes the absent Soviets, who defeated the Rumanians in the 1983 world championships and whose top gymnast, Natalia Yurtchenko, would have been a favored contender for individual honors in these Olympics. Julianne McNamara is the best there is on the uneven bars. Her line is as perfect as a ballerina's, and she flows so lightly from one bar to the next, one movement to another, that the bars sing for her. She got a 10 to prove it. On the floor exercise, she won another perfect mark with choreography...
...flawlessly but managed to make her narrow ground seem like a stage for the Bolshoi Ballet. At one point she rolled off four consecutive backward handsprings, one more than the beam seems capable of containing and two more than any other gymnast tried. Retton's performance on the uneven bars, on the other hand, was, for her, mediocre. The judges gave her a 9.85, and the score was tied...
...somersault, and exploded into a dazzling smile. It did not dim for the rest of her routine. When she landed her final twisting somersault, she had notched a 10. Szabo did not give any ground, however. She went out with solid 9.90s on the vault and, finally, the uneven bars...
...Democrats began developing their line of attack at the convention. On the key issue of the economy, often decisive in U.S. elections, they are sounding two themes. One is that the drop in inflation was bought only at the price of a savage recession, succeeded by an uneven recovery whose effects have yet to reach many of the poor and disadvantaged. In his keynote speech, Cuomo contrasted Reagan's performance with the Democrats' 50-year record of striving to build prosperity shared by all. His eloquence drew wild applause from the delegates, but to some outside the hall...
...started as a joint venture with Zuckerman) on U.S. News's 3.5-acre headquarters site in Washington. The directors, all employees themselves, felt obliged to seek bids and heard from more than 40 companies, including Hearst, Gannett and other media giants. Despite the magazine's modest and uneven record of profits and a 13.4% decline in advertising pages in the first quarter, Zuckerman offered $3,000 per share, more than seven times the price at which the company valued its stock a year...