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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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That pessimistic appraisal of Nujoma's prospects is shared by some U.S. diplomats, who believe that fast-moving developments have "outstripped" the guerrilla leader's capacity to deal with them. Indeed, virtually every Namibian political group is now so ridden with factions that, in the words of a U.S. official, "you'd have to be a fool to predict the outcome" of any future election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAMIBIA: A Right Start That Could Go Wrong | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...place, the British?and for that matter, the Italians as well?are reluctant to tie the pound and other weak European currencies to the superstrong West German mark. Second, London feels that the scheme was somehow imposed on the rest of the Community by what it regards as a fast-developing and potentially dominant Franco-German alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMUNITY: Out of Step Again | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...never shake the image. At 43, Francoise Sagan is still, in the minds of many, the enfant terrible of French letters whose precocious first novel, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), was so successful that it enabled her to adopt a reckless life-style of expensive fast cars, gambling and good whisky. True, true. But Sagan has also found time to spin off twelve more novels and nine plays. Her latest dramatic effort, scheduled for a Paris opening in the autumn, is called It's Nice Day and Night and is laced with familiar themes: an adulterous affair, alienation, the triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1978 | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...AS/5 will do its work almost twice as fast as the IBM machine and has a memory twice the size of the present computer's. It will serve the same purposes as the IBM 370/148 as well as handling additional services with its larger capacity. The AS/5 is compatible with the hardware and software used with the IBM 370 series and therefore can be linked with M.I.T.'s 370/168 without any program modifications...

Author: By Stephen P. Anthony, | Title: Harvard to Get Computer, Will Double IBM Output | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

...also identified the Browns and quoted John Brown extensively, under the label SUN EXCLUSIVE. The Mail tried next day to regain the initiative by printing the first "exclusive" photo of Lesley Brown-but the Sun and the Express both pictured her that day as well. To protect its fast depreciating investment, the Mail quickly stationed a guard outside Lesley Brown's room and persuaded Oldham Hospital officials to refer all inquiries about the birth to the Mail. When a TIME correspondent called the paper to confirm Lesley's age, a spokesman obliged but added: "That's free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frenzy in the British Press | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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