Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wearing training regimen. Beginning in September, three months before the season opens, wrestlers work out three to four hours a day, concentrating on melting off every ounce of "Sub-Q-Fat"-their abbreviation for subcutaneous fat. That struggle continues through the season as wrestlers work to make their weight division before each match. Frequently they go without food for 18 hours before weigh-in, then stoke up in the five hours between weigh-in and match...
...Weight watching is not the only extra pressure on the wrestlers. The sport puts the spotlight on just two men at a time, and how a man wins can be almost as important as whether he wins at all. If he pins an opponent, his team picks up six points; if he cannot pin his opponent but wins the match by outpointing him, his team will get only three or four points, depending on how much he dominated the contest. "A football player may go out and play a lousy game," says Chesbro, "but if the team wins...
...that it is necessary to ease some of the safety standards if prices are to be held in check and styling and efficiency improved. A main target is the regulation that took effect this year requiring front bumpers that can withstand a 5-m.p.h. impact. Says Murphy: "The extra weight and reduced fuel efficiency caused by those bumpers is costing customers a helluva lot more than it's benefiting them...
...automakers are working on plans to shrink the size and weight of their models, while keeping the interiors as roomy as ever. Engines will be smaller, less powerful and more lean on fuel. The most gas-stingy cars on the U.S. market are imports: the Japanese Honda Civic and the Datsun B-210, which get 39 m.p.g. More light-weight metals will be used. Tires will be smaller, and front ends may be built of plastic. The myriad models that now confuse all but the most ardent car buff will be drastically trimmed-at a substantial savings in production costs...
...what it regards as its most potentially successful model: the Pacer. Glassy, small and wide, with plenty of room for passengers, the Pacer, says A.M.C.'s Gerald Meyers, "is our strongest product expression yet of giving the public what it wants." Because of the unavailability of the light-weight Wankel engine that had been planned for the car, the Pacer is still 3,000 Ibs. But, says Meyers, "we're going to get there -a 2,000-lb. car with an engine big enough to carry an air conditioner...