Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before man makes significantly greater strides in influencing weather, he must learn to predict it more accurately. The satellites are proving vastly helpful in this task by photographing huge areas of the earth and its atmosphere, and computers have made it possible to handle and evaluate data fast enough to predict weather accurately for days in advance. Because far more information about the weather is still needed, the World Meteorological Organization will next year inaugurate a "World Weather Watch" using Tiros and Nimbus satellites and a network of 250 land and sea stations. Even more accurate observation is envisioned...
...road ends at a river where the ferryboat has been sunk by bombing," says Captain John Irwin, a Recce Tech officer. "Where is the new ferryboat? We study the riverbank and find a bush that wasn't there a week ago. Bushes don't grow that fast...
...were deserted. One North Vietnamese unit had apparently pulled out so fast that its 500 men abandoned their field packs and left their rice still cooking in open pots...
Crossing the Cartel. Tillinghast learned fast. TWA had only 28 jet planes as against its chief rivals' 124 (Pan American had 46, United 44, American 34). It took Tillinghast ten days to make up his mind to order 26 Boeing 707s for $150 million. With good luck, he was soon able to buy six Convair 880s for immediate delivery when General Dynamics repossessed them from troubled Northeast Airlines. The planes helped TWA catch up in the equipment race. Still, TWA continued to lose money, and for a time Tillinghast seriously talked merger with Pan American. Before the deal jelled...
...same time, demand for color TV sets, appliances and cars has helped boost consumption 17% this year to a rate of 2,344,000 tons, nearly half of the metal's world output. With Europe and Japan also using more copper, the extra demand has come too fast to be met by producers plagued by strikes in Chile and by tensions between white Rhodesia and black Zambia...