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ALWAYS CARRY ON
Two-time American ice dance champions Ben Agosto and Tanith Belbin
didn't want to take any chances on losing their skates again. The
skates were at their sides during the flight from Detroit to Moscow
for the World Figure Skating Championships this week.
Their baggage - including skates - did not make their flight in
February to the Four Continents championships in Gangneung, South
Korea. The skates arrived just hours before they were scheduled to
compete.
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Olympics 2002 -- Shea's '32 Skates Return
Yakima Herald-Republic
; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY - The leather cracked and faded, but the blades still gleaming, the skates that Jack Shea rode to two gold medals 70 years ago were returned to his son and grandson Sunday, ending an extraordinary journey. "I'm overwhelmed," said Jimmy Shea, a third-generation
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Belfour Sharpens Competitive Edge // Hawks Goalie Fine-Tunes Skates Into Obsession
Chicago Sun-Times
; EDMONTON, Alberta In 21 years as a hockey trainer, the Blackhawks' Randy "Grinder" Lacey has seen some pretty strange dudes. But only one has insisted on sharpening his own skates. Only one has been so obsessive, so dedicated, that he spends as much time on one pair of skates as Lacey spends on 20
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CAN RON SKATES SAVE DATA GENERAL?
The Boston Globe
; WESTBOROUGH - Depending on who you ask, Ronald Skates is the chief executive who will either save Data General Corp. or preside over its demise. Supporters say the former accountant has the right mix of financial and managerial skills to pull the computer company out of its painful decline. Critics
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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SKATES HOW TO FIND THAT PERFECT FIT.(DAYBREAK)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; Byline: Sandra Kallio CORRECTION: Wrong information on fitting skates. To fit ice skates, your toe should be within one-eighth of an inch from the end of the boot. Information was incorrect in Thursday's Daybreak section. (Published January 5, 2003) Ice skaters, manufacturers and salespeople
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Teen pleads for return of skates
Honolulu Star - Bulletin
; face=+2; The theft in Waikele is a heart-wrenching setback for a talented young competitorface=-2; To a 13-year-old figure skater with Olympic potential, his skates are worth their weight in gold. After William Nottingham's skates were stolen on Monday -- three days before Skate Aloha, the only
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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A new angle on skating; LandRollers, a goofy-looking pair of roller skates, left a novice getting the last laugh.(SOURCE)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: Jeff Strickler; Staff Writer When my editor asked me to test-drive an innovative pair of roller skates that are ballyhooed as being ideal for beginners because of their increased stability, I figured it would go down as one of the quickest assignments in my career. The skates are called
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Get your skates on ; Friday sees the start of a three-day bonanza on the South Bank, part of our renewed love affair with roller-skating. Here Sophia Money- Coutts learns from the boys who turned Madonna into a skatergirl
Evening Standard - London
; ROLLER-skating is having a "retro" moment. Last seen on Rusty the perky steamengine in Starlight Express, skates are back. Giorgio Armani has designed his own pair, Vogue is reportedly shooting a skating story for its September issue and a three-day roller-disco is set to take over the South Bank
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Skating to Extinction?(fishing trawlers killing skates)
Science News
; Some long-lived fish are facing accidental annihilation Trawlers, which efficiently scour the ocean floor for groundfish, unintentionally haul in plenty of untargeted fish, including large slow-to-reproduce skates. For millions of years, a voracious predator has gracefully patrolled North Atlantic
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$7M bonus for Data General CEO Skates.
The Boston Herald
; Ronald Skates, who has finally stopped the bleeding at Data General Corp., has good reason to stick around to help the company grow again: a $7 million bonus. If he stays on through Sept. 30, 2000, Skates will rake in the megabucks. He'll also collect if he is fired or the Westboro computer company
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ROLLERBALL SKATES A BIG HIT ON SHOPPING SHOW.
Rubber & Plastics News
; LOS ANGELES--RollerBall International Inc.'s line of in-line skates were a big hit recently on television. The company sold almost 12,000 pairs of the skates in 131 minutes on the Home Shopping Network. ``We were quite pleased with our sales on the Home Shopping Network said Dale Baker, vice
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