Word: winner
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...starting lineups were announced, Templeton led the crowd in cheers, waving his hat and seeming to express the Padres frustrations as he called for fan support for this first division winner for San Diego...
...atmosphere of an election year, leaders of the Republican Senate, the Democratic House and the Reagan Administration finally reached agreement last week on military spending. The compromise included goodies for all participants. But on the stickiest issue, the future of the MX missile, House Democrats came out a clear winner...
Considering the debacle over nude photographs that led to the resignation of last year's winner, the judges' choice of Miss Utah as the new Miss America seemed made in promotional heaven. Sharlene Wells, 20, began her reign last week by promising a return to "traditional values." The 120-lb., 5-ft. 8-in. blond daughter of a Mormon missionary does not smoke, drink, take drugs, believe in abortion, condone premarital sex or back the Equal Rights Amendment ("The ERA would make us a neuter society; I prefer to be a woman"). A communications major at Brigham Young...
American athletes struck gold at the Summer Olympics, but the real winner was the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, which put together the Games. The L.A.O.O.C. last week proudly announced that stronger than expected ticket sales had helped produce a $150 million surplus, ten times the $15 million profit forecast last fall even before a Soviet-led boycott threatened the success of the Games. Quipped Committee President Peter Ueberroth: "We only missed by a zero...
...portrait painter, but the art school director pointed out that "your son isn't interested in art, he's only interested in clothes." Lagerfeld promoted this shortcoming into a virtue by turning quickly to fashion design. At 16, he entered a design competition and won. Another winner was also a teenager, named Yves Saint Laurent...