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Rather than being unfair to underdogs, the primary system this year gave Kennedy an early chance to score against a stumbling incumbent President, and it gave Reagan's challengers an opening to upset him in areas of the country where he might have been weakest. Yet both Carter and Reagan won impressively in widely separated areas of the nation. Theorists may devise a better way to choose the party's presidential candidates-and many Americans hope they do-but no system would work any more successfully unless it could start with a different cast of characters...
...meters is Heiden's weakest event. Five days before the Olympics opened, he lost the first heat of the world sprint championships to U.S. Teammate Dan Immerfall, an upset that left Immerfall mildly dazzled and Heiden, oddly enough, relieved. "The defeat took some of the pressure off," said Heiden. "I could relax a little...
...both frequent and extreme enough the sclera does not return to its normal position and myopia develops. Second, the eye is least able to reduce strain near the point where the optic nerve enters the eye--Greene draws an analogy with the rivet holes in airplane wings, the weakest point of an airplane's body. This factor may explain why myopia is concentrated about the optic nerve...
...simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire...
...reach world-class standards: during his freshman year in college. He had to go back to work on his compulsory figures, those painstaking loops and turns that judges squat to scrutinize like the Rosetta stone. He has never caught up with the class; school figures remain his weakest point. But naysayers who insist that the double lutzes and triple salchows are jumps that have to be grooved into muscle memory before a boy is old enough to shave have been proved wrong: a typical Tickner free-skating program contains just as many crowd-pleasing pyrotechnics as any on the skating...