Word: wyss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the earth began to tremble, TIME staff members in San Francisco found themselves living the story they would report. Lee Griggs and Dennis Wyss were squeezed into an open-air press box in the upper deck of Candlestick Park, awaiting the start of the third game of the World Series. "I heard a low rumble, and my first thought was that the Giants fans were stamping their feet in unison," Wyss recalls. An instant later, the stands began rocking back and forth. A native San Franciscan, Wyss was sure an earthquake had struck. So was Griggs, who as TIME...
Griggs did his best to reassure his neighbors in the press box, most of them out-of-town sportswriters more conversant with split-fingered fast balls than the Richter scale. But both Griggs and Wyss became concerned when stadium light towers began whipping back and forth. Says Wyss: "The stadium kept swaying faster and faster. I thought, how much more can it take before it caves in? I felt utterly helpless. Then it stopped...
...consultant to the San Francisco 49ers, Golden State Warriors and Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, Edwards is challenging the American sports establishment from the inside. On the eve of Bill White's debut as the first black president of the National League, Edwards, 46, talked with TIME's Dennis Wyss about his efforts to break through the almost-all-white lineup of sports managers...
Economist David Wyss of Data Resources Inc. of Lexington said the dramatic size of January's increase was a "one-month aberration" caused largely by rising energy and food prices, but that the overall trend nevertheless has been one of accelerating inflation...
...think it's going to be higher again this year, and it could be a lot higher if we have another drought," Wyss said. "Early signs don't look good. We haven't had much precipitation east of the Rockies...