Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean earned an unprecedented 12 perfect 6.0s and Britain's first gold medal by ice-dancing as star-crossed lovers at the XIV Olympic Winter Games yesterday...
...takes its skiers to New Hampshire and Vermont almost every weekend from Thanksgiving on, including a week-long Christmas camp in December With a total of only three meets on its schedule--on three successive weekends this month--the team has not had much of a chance this winter to ease up in its effort to qualify for the Division II championships next weekend in Syracuse...
...telecast seven of the past ten Olympiads, Winter and Summer. It has worked hard, spent mightily and trumpeted loudly to make itself "the Network of the Olympics." Starting this week, it will be beaming 63.5 hours over 13 days. The network is expecting (and praying) that at one time or another, 200 million Americans will tune in to the true, permanent site of the Games, the TV screen...
...spent $91.5 million in 1980 for the opportunity to televise the Sarajevo Games, a figure that at the time seemed astronomical. Yet two weeks ago, Arledge and company purchased the rights to the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alta., for $309 million. Way back in 1980, the Lake Placid Winter Games cost the network only $15.5 million. A phenomenal escalation but, so far, not an insane one. For the Sarajevo Games, ABC is charging advertisers an average $225,000 for 30 seconds of prune time, down to a bargain-basement $75,000 for late night, and every spot is already...
...Designed and constructed in Los Angeles, the center was disassembled and shipped to New York City, reassembled and tested in a warehouse for what ABC dubbed a "war games" dress rehearsal, then disassembled again and shipped by boat in 30 mammoth trailers to Yugoslavia. A few days after the Winter Games are over, technicians will begin breaking it down yet another time, so that it can make the return trip west for the Summer Games...