Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's 100-meter freestyle race, the first finals in the rapid white-water stream of them. When a Swiss timepiece was unable to choose between Carrie Steinseifer and Nancy Hogshead, duplicate gold medals were struck, and naturally those two were immediately dubbed the Gold Dust Twins. From their wide expressions on the unusually crowded victory stand, neither swimmer minded the company or gave much thought to absent East Germans. Regarding the boycott generally, the athletes know where the asterisks go, and will cheerfully tell anyone else...
There are no Nadias among them-her particular perfection remains unchallenged-but it is fitting that the Rumanians won the gold medal on the balance beam, the event that Comaneci had once commanded with uncommon aplomb. The beam, a 4-in.-wide strip that demands the greatest precision and exacts the severest penalties for the minutest errors, is the great winnower of women gymnasts. It is a tightrope without a net, and every bit as dangerous as turning handsprings on a cliff. Beam injuries have been crippling, and few women ever lose their fear of it. When it is done...
Electronic wizardry is, of course, no better than the people who control it, and ABC's reportage, although wide, has been less than deep. Gymnastics Commentators Rigby McCoy and Kurt Thomas repeatedly tossed off the names of movements (Tsukahara, Strelli and Hecht) without using pretaped footage to define them. Swimming Commentator Mark Spitz was only occasionally instructive; although shorter races are often won in the turns, neither he nor ABC's cameras demonstrated what makes a turn effective. Track Commentator O.J. Simpson added little to what viewers saw, although onetime Olympian Marty Liquori aptly explained pacing...
...entrepreneurs and government officials are hopeful about a Community initiative called the European Strategic Program for Research and Development in Information Technologies (ESPRIT). Its proponents believe that the $1.3 billion five-year plan for cooperative research in microelectronics and data processing could lead to at least a partial, Europe-wide standardization in products of the future. Twelve participating ESPRIT companies agreed in March to adopt common specifications for computers and office equipment, and telecommunications officials have begun to discuss common guidelines for buying new equipment. Last March, French President François Mitterrand visited California's Silicon Valley...
Roiled since 1982 by prodigious storms, the 30-mile-wide Great Salt Lake has risen 10 ft., its fastest climb ever, overspilling its borders and flooding the land around it. What was once the driest state in the union after Nevada is fast becoming a water wasteland: tens of millions of dollars' worth of property has been destroyed, wildlife has diminished catastrophically, and tourism around the lake has bottomed out. Says Utah Governor Scott Matheson, with tragicomic wit: "It's a helluva way to run a desert...