Word: faste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capturing a team's locker-room atmosphere, Golenbock, the co-author of Yankee-bashing books like Sparky Lyle's The Bronx Zoo and Graig Nettles' Balls, has no peer. If you're interested in college athletics or just want to read a horror story about power abuse, make a fast break to Personal Fouls...
...bring up this incident not to drag Ken Lee's name through the mud, but to illustrate his evident tendency to play fast and loose with the truth...
...situation got so bad that by July the wildly-fluctuating Argentine currency (the austral) had fallen during the past year from a value of about $1.25 to roughly one-seventh of a cent. Every Monday morning, the banks were flooded with people desperately trying to change their fast-depreciating australs to U.S. dollars, the de facto national currency that is welcomed almost anywhere...
Amid these shifting security sands, Western Europe is also seeking to adapt to a changing world economic order in which America's pre-eminence has eroded as fast as its foreign debt has grown. Project 1992 is a response both to a global economic leadership vacuum and to the growing commercial challenge posed by North America, Japan and the fast industrializing economies of Asia. The opening up of Western Europe's protected national markets will hurt inefficient firms, but the hope is that enough competitive winners will emerge to ensure that Western Europe has its champions in the 1990s...
...sponsors hope to achieve is something of a mystery. Procter & Gamble, the company that makes Downy, will spend $8.5 million to advertise The Wizard of Oz tape. Yet, according to two surveys, at least two-thirds, and perhaps as many as nine-tenths, of all viewers push the fast-forward button when they spot...