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Word: faste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast is a bit out of our league," said member Mark A. Gragg '91. "If we want to organize a protest, okay. But it's not the UC's role to sponsor an event personally...

Author: By H. JACQUELINE Suk, | Title: Council Backs Pittston Strikers | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Donating the money would detract from the fast because "the point is not to transfer money, but [instead] not to eat," said Noam Bramson '91, formerly vice-chair of the council...

Author: By H. JACQUELINE Suk, | Title: Council Backs Pittston Strikers | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Soviet empire is disintegrating so quickly and in so many ways that * neither Moscow nor Washington has been able to adjust its policies fast enough to keep up with events. Last week, while the East German regime went into free fall, nationalists in the Estonian parliament prepared to consider a resolution that explicitly challenges the legitimacy of Soviet rule and implicitly raises the possibility of an eventual declaration of independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Washington's Captive Policy | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...deadpanned nonstop alliterations into the phone as he promoted an employee ("I'm putting you in charge of Pittsburgh, Peter!") and closed a contract ("Dick, what's the deal with the deal?"). The 1982 Federal Express commercial featuring the fast-talking Mr. Spleen struck a chord in frantic managers everywhere. Last week it was rated the best ad of the 1980s in a Top Ten list compiled by the One Club, an industry group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: One-Liners and Broken Taboos | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Kids on the Block are commercial product all right, right down to the heels of their felony flyers. Fast-food Princes, Jack-in-the-Box Jacksons, rappers with no nutritional value. Right. They're also pretty good and, of course, just plain pretty. Their just released Merry, Merry Christmas is a Yuletide celebration that sounds snappy while simultaneously evoking the innocent pleasures of mistletoe and holly. All the things that hard rap never is, but those 7 million record buyers apparently yearn for it to be: safe, snug and (if you listen close), just a little smug. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fresh Faces from Beantown | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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