Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wind-chill factor made it feel like -50°. Team assistants used a hair dryer to keep Annemarie's boots warm and flexible in the small start house atop the 2,698-meter downhill run. Her face was coated with an anti-frostbite cream. Sewn inside her uniform was a photograph of her father...
...reclusive Vermonter from Putney (pop. 1,789), won the silver medal in the 30-km race at Innsbruck in 1976, the first U.S. medal ever in Nordic siding, nobody was there to notice. In fact, after the race was over, Koch had to go out again in his uniform and skis so that photographers could take his picture for the papers back home...
...will take some doing. The Steelers, Art Rooney Jr. said last week, "are like the great Yankee teams used to be. The peer pressure is very strong. Just putting on the uniform motivates a player to perform beyond his potential." At week's end, the Steelers were 11-point favorites to keep right on winning...
Tariffs: The boldest move was to reduce tariffs, which had ranged from 100% to 1,000%, to a more uniform 10%, forcing Chilean industry to become competitive almost overnight. Now Chile is shipping refrigerators to Argentina, shoes to Peru and logs to Japan. In the process, the country is transforming itself from a "monoproduct" economy into one in which noncopper goods are now 51% of exports. Forests are being planted with high-yield pine trees; U.S. authorities estimate that by 1990 forest products could become as important as copper to the economy...