Word: faste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to the campus disturbances of the late 1960s, Ivy educators say search committees began to place a premium on crisis management. The result was that law school deans and those with strong administrative backgrounds and keen negotiating skills fast became the presidential ideal...
...automobile owners at least $500 apiece from an initial fund of $16.3 million. The settlement concludes an investigation that began some two years ago, Iacocca writes, when a Chrysler executive in Missouri "tried to weasel out of a ticket by telling the officer that he didn't know how fast he was going because his speedometer was disconnected...
That is a simple but accurate description of a situation approaching the crisis stage throughout the U.S. The affluent, fast-paced, throwaway American culture is producing trash on a stupendous scale. Between 1960 and 1986, the amount of American garbage grew 80%, from 87.5 million tons to 157.7 million tons annually. It is expected to increase 22% by the year 2000, when the malodorous mound will weigh 192.7 million tons...
...last time grocery-store customers stared at prices with such dismay was in the 1970s, when inflation was moving as fast as the numbers on a cash register. This summer the drought has sent food prices leaping again, even though inflation in the rest of the economy remains at tolerable levels. The Government said last week that during July the Consumer Price Index rose 0.4%, an annual rate of 5.2%. But the subindex for food and beverages jumped 0.9%, raising the possibility of double-digit inflation at the supermarket. Among the hardest hit in July: fruits and vegetables (4.7%), poultry...
...advertising industry, small shops are thinking big these days. Fast- moving and feisty, the upstarts are luring a growing share of blue-chip accounts away from the Madison Avenue behemoths. While agencies like Manhattan's Young & Rubicam (1987 billings: $4.9 billion) and London's Saatchi ) & Saatchi ($4.6 billion) have tried to dominate the business by taking over competitors, firms less than one-tenth their size are attracting large ad accounts to such off-the-avenue cities as Boston and Minneapolis. In mid- August the Richards Group of Dallas ($97 million) snared the $15 million account for the Long John Silver...