Word: faste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recent public opinion polls show Dukakis closing fast on Bush in several key states including California, a must-win state where Dukakis aides said an 11-point Bush lead a week ago has shrunk to a virtual...
...chief beneficiary of a shifty, sometimes shiftless man's redeeming devotion. He is also, in the end, the Captain's unwitting Judas. Greene, 84, wastes not a word in distilling the fictional preoccupations of a lifetime, omitting descriptive padding and elaborate transitions. But stripped down, the narrative runs fast and true across that bleak and poignant emotional landscape that is uniquely, immortally...
This is not the first time the FDA has unveiled a streamlined approval process. In 1982 the agency announced several timesaving steps, including a call for better communications between the FDA and manufacturers. Last year, after vociferous protests from people suffering from AIDS, the agency established a fast track for drugs that might help in the fight against the eight-year-old epidemic. So far, however, only one very expensive medication, which can cause severe anemia, has been approved -- Burroughs Wellcome's Zidovudine...
...stump. Bush is going in the opposite direction; one day last week he relaxed and worked in his hotel room all morning and did not hit the campaign trail until noon. If the Republicans have hit cruising speed, though, they won't admit it. "Watch how fast we go and where we go -- we're not letting up," Bush told reporters. "The worst thing I could do would be to show a complacency I don't feel...
From early on Dick Goodwin was one of the best and the brightest. After attending Tufts University and graduating first in his class from Harvard Law School, he began what looked to be a promising career with a clerkship under Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Keeping on the intellectual fast track, Goodwin then worked as counsel for a House committee investigating fixed TV quiz shows. Goodwin's next move, becoming a speechwriter for the 1960 Kennedy presidential campaign, brought him into the equally scandalous world of politics and power. From 1961 to 1965, Goodwin served Presidents Kennedy and Johnson...