Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry Parker strongly denies that the boat suffered for it. "Mentally they were ready to race just as hard and just as fast as they had ever done. I don't think you have to explain being beaten by crews of that caliber...
...this analogy, Reuben is the free-spending U.S. consumer, who is apparently playing all too fast and loose. Despite a deliberate anti-inflation deal from Uncle Sam, who enacted the 10% tax surcharge in July, the consumer is buying even more than he did before. During the third quarter of the year, savings declined while consumer spending actually rose to 10% over the level of the same quarter last year...
...Fast Profit. Military scrip was introduced three years ago as a way of curbing the growing black market in regular U.S. currency. The new red-colored MFCs were meant to be valid only in such U.S. establishments as post exchanges and officers' clubs...
...were short of Vietnamese piastres often used it to pay bills in native stores and bars, generally exchanging it near the official rate of 118 piastres to the dollar. Such MFCs would then wind up in the hands of Chinese and Indian money-changers, who in turn realized a fast profit by selling them at 140 piastres to the dollar...
Carl A. Kuhrmeyer, vice president of 3M's duplicating productions division, expects color equipment to eventually capture at least 10% of a fast-growing copying-machine market that already amounts to $1 billion a year. Despite its substantial head start toward that rainbow of riches, 3M has every reason to respect the competition. RCA and Polaroid, which are both newcomers to the duplicating-machine business, are still working on color-copying processes of their own. Then, of course, there is always Xerox, whose color copier, when it comes out, will almost inevitably...