Word: faste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie's ending is its greatest diappointment. It builds to a series of fast-paced dramatic scenes, full of blood and violence and disappointed love, but than deflates all of the fear and pain and passion by killing off the bad guys and letting the good guy--George--just get up and leave...
...black townships, but adds that the liberals have always been relatively well informed and now "are responding by emigrating in large numbers." Overall, he is pessimistic, saying "Ordinary whites think the maintenance of law-and- order justifies the emergency regulations. The country is moving to the right very, very fast, and not just the Afrikaners but the English-speaking population as well. They will fight tooth and claw to avoid their fate...
...answer to the AIDS crisis was becoming more and more urgent. As the Paris meeting concluded, Molecular Biologist Flossie Wong-Staal of the National Cancer Institute tried to sound optimistic. "I think things are going on the right track and the right time schedule. The science is going very fast." Unfortunately, she conceded, "the disease is going faster...
Once an obscure gadget found mostly on the dashboards of high-performance cars or in the cabs of long-haul trucks, the portable radar detector is fast becoming standard operating equipment in workaday Chevys, Fords and Toyotas. By beeping a warning whenever a police radar transmitter is operating nearby, the small (as light as 6 oz.) electronic gizmos give lead-footed drivers a chance to slow down before a police officer can spot a speeding violation. About 1.5 million citizens bought so-called Smokey detectors last year, a 25% increase over 1984. This year industry sales are expected to keep...
Manufacturing over-the-counter capsules has been a fast-growing, profitable business (1985 sales: $1.5 billion), but the market is suddenly shrinking. Within the past five months, both Bristol-Meyers and Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, have stopped selling any of their nonprescription drugs in capsule form. While most other manufacturers insist that they have no current intention of walking away from this market, consumers and producers across the U.S. are pondering the uncertain fate of the still popular product...