Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the 1980's, the United States has had its moments at the Winter Olympics. Few will forget speedskater Eric Heiden's five gold medals at the 1980 Games at Lake Placid, N.Y. Or when Bill Johnson, the typical ski bum, conquered the mountains at the 1984 Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia...
...moments the Americans have had at the Winter Games, other countries--particularly the ones that live, breathe, and eat snow--have had it better. Like the East Germans, or the Russians. And don't forget all those Scandinavian countries...
...pork-barrel expenditures included in the last omnibus spending bill, signed just before winter recess, range from the slightly humorous--$240,000 for a study of the damage done to macademia nuts by rats--to the seriously expensive--$25 million for an unneeded new airport in Fort Worth near the home territory Speaker of the House Jim Wright. In the several-thousand pages of an omnibus appropriations bill, these expenditures can be shielded from constituents, and congressmen can hide their support for these perks by claiming that they voted for the whole package, not individual appropriations...
...debate over strategic issues and superpower relations--even to the point of coloring current arguments over the INF and START treaties. Politicians, scholars, and journalists have turned to the Crisis to draw out lessons about nuclear weapons, diplomacy, and crisis management. The publication of surprising evidence in this winter's International Security--a transcript of secret tapes which recorded the meetings of top Kennedy Administration advisers during the Crisis--shows that most interpretations of the October 1962 event have been wrong...
...Vigne is demanding to be reinstated on the U.S. team for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary next week. "I feel that the selection criteria were not followed and that Mr. Gault did not qualify under the criteria," La Vigne said...