Word: faste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...200th anniversary of the signing by President Washington of the Lighthouse Act; and Whereas that Act, established a Federal role in the support, maintenance, and repair of al lighthouse, beacon buoys, and public piers necessary for safe navigation; commissioned the Federal lighthouse, and represents the first public work fast Federal lighthouse, and represents the first public works Act in the young country; and Whereas lighthouses played an integral role in the rich maritime history of the United States as that history spread from the Atlantic coast, through the Great Lakes and Gulf coast, to the Pacific states...
...Cambridge homeless rights advocate yesterday reached the halfway mark of a 48-day fast aimed at influencing Congress to spend more on housing...
Some Harvard students who have worked with Guernsey support this fast. "In the long term it will be potentially effective to have folks reminded that people are willing to do this," said Daniel Buchanan '89, co-director of the University Lutheran Shelter, which is run by a committee of Phillips Brooks House. Guernsey has served as an advisor to the shelter...
...Manhattan yuppie trying to juggle a baby and a high- pressure corporate job in NBC's Baby Boom. The pilot episode plays too much like a Reader's Digest version of the movie (both written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers). But this satire of motherhood in the fast lane can be clever: Mom tells little Elizabeth over the phone, "I'll be home in half a Sesame Street." The Big Band music and Woody Allen-like intertitles give Baby Boom a stylish, non-sitcomy sheen...
...Thai (though a resident of what Thais call their 74th province, California). SPORTS ILLUSTRATED posed this year's splashy swimsuit issue on Thailand's beaches, and a new Orient Express is scheduled to start its luxury runs from Bangkok to Singapore in less than two years. As fast as Thailand has come to Hollywood (there are scores of Thai restaurants on Melrose Avenue alone), Hollywood has come to Thailand (shooting across the political spectrum, from The Killing Fields to Rambo III). So giddy is the world's romance with the smiling kingdom, in fact, that some people fear the country...