Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...huge deficit-spending program, which includes $22 billion for improving Japan's long neglected highways, bridges and pollution controls. Another $10.5 billion is being spent for 550,000 sorely needed new housing units. As a consequence, consumer spending is reviving, the once mountainous backlog of inventories is fast being depleted, and the stage is set for a reasonably strong recovery...
Even so, the inevitability of Title IX has forced schools to upgrade their programs for girls, and fast. Says Margot Polivy, the attorney for the A.I.A.W.: "In 1972, before Title IX, women's intercollegiate sports had 1% of the budget of the men's. I would judge today that women's programs?the best of them?are running between 15% and 18% of the men's programs on money. And on the average, women's programs are running about 10%. Colleges are just now starting to feel the impact of what's been happening on the elementary and secondary level...
...Barbara Drinkwater, a research physiologist at the University of California's Institute of Environmental Stress, found that prepubertal girls are precisely the same as boys in cardio-respiratory (heart-lung) endurance capacity. Parents who worry about their young daughters overtaxing tender hearts while turning a fast 440 should realize that the human machine is designed to shut down -through leg cramps, side stitches, and dizziness-if the strain is too severe...
When you lose interest in the zoo atmosphere of the Union and in the eat-up-and-get-out ambience of the Square's fast-food places, perhaps it's time to head for the more relaxed eating establishments in the Cambridge-Boston area...
...only got three choices, none of which is going to earn you a place in the dietician's Hall of Fame: Harvard food (which if you're smart, you don't want to eat); restaurant food (which if you're smart, you know you can't afford); and fast food (which if you're both poor and smart, you will approach with extreme caution as the least of three extraordinary evils.) With that in mind, and with a case of Bromo Seltzer in tow, you'll probably want to set out on a tour of the Square's fast food...