Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reduction so far reflects mostly a scaling down of income tax cuts planned for next year and the continuing inability of federal agencies to spend money as fast as they are authorized to, rather than any determined slashing of programs. An Administration "hit team" is now examining the 1979 budget line by line, looking for places to cut. Jack Carlson, chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, figures that they expect that it will eventually squeeze the deficit to about $35 billion...
...sharply divided on the merits of the gambling mania. Some regard it as a welcome sign that the small investor is at last returning to the market. Many more would agree with E.F. Hutton Vice President Anthony Correra, who warns that gambling stocks "have run up too far, too fast. We think traders should sell and take their profits while they can." That is what the smart money may have been doing. In June, Securities and Exchange Commission records show, Resorts officers sold 24,800 shares in their own company, which were then valued at $1.87 million...
...whose life-style could qualify for federal disaster relief. Others, like Michael Murphey, started in Austin but moved on to other locales. Now living in Evergreen, Colo., Murphey has a cooler sound than many of the progressives and writes lyrics about themes like urban sprawl and the advent of fast-food chains where the Cavalry once rode. Still others, like Waylon Jennings, the only member of the movement to share superstar status with Willie, never lived in Austin at all. Jennings comes by his affinity through his outlaw tendencies and through his capacity to make honest and appealing music...
...River from Manhattan, where he recently played before a youthful crowd of 62,000 (most of them fans of the headline act the Grateful Dead). He carries with him his "family" of 25 musicians, technicians and hangers-on, who use nicknames among themselves like "T. Snake," "The Beast" and "Fast Eddie." Some of their escapades are memorialized in Willie's song about his longtime drummer, aide and confidant, Paul ("The Devil") English, 45, who packs a .38 special on the bandstand...
That I'm livin 'too fast...