Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incessantly, talk back to the boss, shun lunch at Sans Souci and rarely turn up at social functions; Jordan wears a black tie as if it were a noose. The pair are the wonder and dismay of Establishment Washington. They are country boys who have come so far, so fast, that the red clay of their native Georgia still clings, as it were, to their shoes, their accents and their lifestyles. They relish politics more for the pleasure than the power, more for the gambol than the glory. They are almost indecently at ease in the White House; nobody...
Burns' admirers credit him with an instinctive feel for how fast money can move through the economy, something called "velocity." This is nothing more than the frequency with which dollars get used, and it has been speeded up in recent years by computerized bank accounts and lightning-fast electronic funds transfer. The effect is to increase the money supply even though no new money may actually be pumped into the system. At the depth of the recession in the spring of 1975, Burns resisted pressures to increase the money supply and relied instead on a much greater increase...
...most profound change has been in Walton himself. The counterculture ponytail is gone, sacrificed to the heat of arena lights and the sizzling sweat of the fast-break pace. Press conferences denouncing the FBI have given way to post-game interviews in the warm glow of a victorious team's dressing room. The strict vegetarian diet has been modified to include a Pacific salmon now and then. Walton has hardly become a conservative paragon of the Establishment; he still chomps bean sprouts and supports radical causes. But this year, for the first time in his N.B.A. career...
Some OPEC leaders have tried to close the rift, but so far without success. The latest attempt was made by President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela. In a fast-paced tour of the Middle East, Perez sought to persuade his warring OPEC colleagues to accept a compromise. His proposal was presumably along these lines: the Eleven would forgo the 5% price increase scheduled to go into effect in July; in return, so the speculation goes, the Saudis and Emirates would allow their prices to rise, gradually closing the 10% differential...
...caramel and calcium phosphate, at $4 to $5 per Ib.; two tablespoons of Buisman's, long used in schools and hospitals, will double the yield of a pound of coffee. Another caramel-based extender, Coffee STRETCH, now being sold in 1,000 Denver-area grocery stores, is selling fast at about 69e for a half-ounce packet. It too boosts the yield of a can of coffee...