Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angelenos travel to and from work by public transport v. 54% of New Yorkers. The auto, of course, is ihe main contributor to the city's infamous smog, which keeps spreading-despite a recent requirement for exhaust devices-simply because the number of vehicles is increasing so fast...
...stereotypes about Los Angeles are fast losing whatever basis they may have had. No longer does the city suffer from chronic San Francisco envy, even though it has taken up the San Francisco-originated topless-waitress fad. With more grandeur if less concentrated charm, Los Angeles is refreshingly free of San Francisco's narcissistic smugness. Los Angeles has no time to be smug. It is too busy: busy building its $19 million privately financed Music Center, a downtown complex consisting of the 3,250-seat Pavilion and two smaller, almost completed theaters; busy putting up galleries like...
Though fascinated, other experts calmly argue that laboratories are producing new antibiotics too fast for germs to catch up. Moreover, they suggest a preventive for the animal-to-man transfer problem-feed livestock different antibiotics from those given to humans. There are plenty of other drugs suitable for hogs, steers and chickens...
...monosyllabic obscenities loud enough to disturb others in rooms 30 yards away." Not surprisingly, the patient could not hold a job, appear in public or keep girl friends. Clark cured him by getting him to exaggerate his symptoms: he was made to repeat his favorite obscenities as loud and fast as he could until exhausted. Any alternative words or flagging from a metronome-paced cursing speed of up to 200 cusses a minute was discouraged by mild electric shocks...
...directors of the Lee Higginson Corp. grimly debated for eight hours the future of their firm-oldest and one of the most famous of U.S. investment houses. When they finally arrived at a decision, Lee Higginson was dead. For an "undisclosed amount," Manhattan's relatively youthful (age 74), fast-growing (60 branches) Hayden, Stone Inc. bought Lee Higginson's name (which it will not use), offices and assets in Boston, New York, Chicago and four other cities...