Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potential candidate who might catch on fast is New York Congressman Jack Kemp, co-sponsor of the Roth-Kemp bill, which would cut personal income taxes by 33% over a three-year period. He has been traveling around the country to test the political waters and has found them agreeable. "Kemp makes a striking appearance," says John Simms, executive director of the Mississippi G.O.P. "Even though he uses words like macroeconomics, his examples hit home. Besides, he has the hottest issue going...
...same time, more than 300 poitical prisoners, most of them openly Marxist, were released from jail. Said one prisoner on his release: "They let us out fast so they'd have room for all the fat cats." Several hundred other political dissidents, including the head of the Iranian Committee for Human Rights and his deputy and two mullahs-one with a bank account of $1.5 million-were charged with seeking to overthrow the Shah...
...purses, and the easy, pay-later access to goods and services that credit cards offer extends to such exotica as Nevada divorces, surgical work and, in some areas, bail money. Now the ever inventive credit card companies are poised for a new phase of expansion. Growing twice as fast as in recent years, the amount of purchases billed on cards so far in 1978 is up 40%. Americans spend $16 billion a year on cards, and the total is expected to soar to about $50 billion in the late 1980s...
...continued to watch the game. The father politely clapped after each Harvard gain. The boy sat pensive, still bewildered as to why he hadn't seen a hot dog vendor in the stands, or why the stadium clock had ticked down so fast when the opposition was threatening to score late in the half...
Just moments after the Detroit P.A. had announced the Yankees' 4-3 victory over Milwaukee, Boston Red Sox reliever Andy Hassler--a man who once lost 18 straight games--peered in on Tiger Jason Thompson with two on, the score tied, and the pennant fading fast. But in a gutty performance, Hassler and his kamikaze comrades held on and punched out a 5-4 win in 11 innings over the Motowners to stay alive in the A.L. East...