Word: faste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis loan proposal comes at a critical time. College costs have fast outpaced the growth of family incomes since 1980, and the Reagan Administration has been reluctant to make up the gap. Even with adjustments for inflation, federal student aid has fallen by 6 percent during this period and has been increasingly concentrated in the form of loans rather than grants, forcing more middle-income students and families to take on oppressive debt burdens. As a result, default rates have skyrocketed to record levels...
Along with 6000 Red Guard members, Xuelianglater helped to wrest the city of Ching Yang fromthe control of almost 100,000 peasants. TheGuard's three-day fast in that cold March promptedthe central government to force local authoritiesto appease the students and expel peasants fromthe city...
Since viruses can travel from one place to another as fast as a phone call, a single strain can quickly turn up in computers hundreds of miles apart. The infection that struck Froma Joselow hit more than 100 other disks at the Journal-Bulletin as well as an estimated 100,000 IBM PC disks across the U.S. -- including some 10,000 at George Washington University alone. Another virus, called SCORES for the name of the bogus computer file it creates, first appeared in Apple Macintosh computers owned by Dallas-based EDS, the giant computer-services organization. But it spread rapidly...
...boost in U.S. exports and an 8.9% drop in imports, prompted almost giddy reactions within the Administration. Only a day earlier Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady had predicted during his Senate confirmation hearings that "one of the surprises of the next two or three years will be how fast" the trade gap will shrink...
...Freshmen getting experience this early will give more depth to the team," Caples said. "Playing at such a fast pace can only make us better. The freshmen did an outstanding...