Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporting reality," says Willwerth. Part of the confusion came from spending a few days with Reynolds. The flashy-flip, skirt-chasing, tire-burning macho hero of Semi-Tough, and a score of other cinematic excursions, proved to be a "semi-shy, urbane homebody." It turns out that the fast cars, wine and women are just an act on screen. Reynolds does drive a Rolls-Royce, but at the speed limit, and is going steady with an actress (Sally Field) long known for playing a flying...
Population. The U.S. population is growing about .7% a year, which is scarcely one-third as fast as the worldwide average. Since 1970, the U.S. fertility rate-number of births per 1,000 women projected over their child-bearing lifetime-has dropped dramatically, from 2,480 to 1,856.6 in 1974. At that rate the U.S. population will rise from its current 217 million to only 262 million by the year...
...Cooke, senior vice president for sales promotion at Bloomingdale's: "Price was no object." The French-made metal-housed Cuisinart, which slices, dices, chops, minces and shreds faster than conventional individual tools, sells for $225. Yet it and lower-priced competitors (La Machine, Omnichef) flew off shelves so fast that almost no store could seem to keep them in stock. Neiman-Marcus in Houston sold 24 West German-made exercise machines ($2,000) before running...
...safely be left to the management of others. The National Bank of Georgia, he asserts, has intrinsic values, like a location in a prime growth area. Moreover, he sees bright days ahead once various federal investigations are concluded. "It is a turnaround situation that comes very quickly and very fast," says Pharaon. "In fact, we foresee in 1978 that the bank will be very handsomely in the black...
...trash as fuel is spreading fast...