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Word: faste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soybean oil for the first time. The Soviets offered to purchase 200,000 tons, worth $120 million, using subsidies extended to other buyers of U.S. surplus soybean oil. Says one agribusiness executive: "What Gorbachev wants to do is fill up his stores and put something on the shelves fast. A housewife who can't find cooking oil is in a hell of a fix." This expert insists that the White House has nixed the sale, and adds, "Gorbachev is going to view it as a hostile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do-Nothing Detente | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

This incident is fast (it takes place in a couple of pages), and the book never significantly deals with the aftermath of the accident, so it seems to be just another contrived misfortune in a long string. Jeremy is the Charlie Brown of modern adolescent fiction. By the time Jeremy finds a voice, we are so wary as not to care...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Despite Glimmers of Wit, A Novel That's Overdone | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

King Hussein escaped personal blame, but Rifai was widely faulted. According + to Professor Ismail Abdul Rahman, an economist at the University of Jordan, the government's "fatal mistake" was avoiding action for years, then trying to do too much too fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jordan Getting the Royal Flush | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...show that there's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but that there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. Motherhood emotionally and physically changes a woman. Your head and your body get connected so fast. Cloning, all that biological stuff, is male motherhood. The whole technological age is an attempt to have men give birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROSEANNE BARR: Slightly To The Left Of Normal | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...certainly fast. The car has a top speed of 180 m.p.h. and can go from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in a blistering 4.2 sec., making it the fastest factory-built car in the world. Moreover, the Corvette more than holds its own in road- hugging tests against the $75,000 Porsche 928GT and the $180,000 Ferrari Testarossa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pussycat That Roars | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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