Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown's chief defense against such mistakes is a scientist's reverence for facts. Because he detests canned, military-style briefings, he insists on reading the background studies and documents himself before making a decision. As he zips through them?nearly as fast, it sometimes seems, as a computer scans punch cards?he pencils questions and comments along the margins in his almost microscopic handwriting. Next he peppers the Pentagon's experts with still more questions, until he is satisfied that he has squeezed the subject dry. "No one can snow him," boasts an aide...
...tactics are pretty much the same, I guess. We "leg" soldiers have to move fast, but the new utility transport helicopter and the armored combat vehicle are improvements over the old armored personnel carriers (we've got that type around...
...profits are reinvested by the energy industry to find and produce yet more energy"-or taxed, with revenue returning to the consumer. 2) The Republican program pushes nuclear power more than the Carter plan. It calls for research into the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, continued development of the fast breeder reactor (all but buried by Carter) and stepped-up fusion research, which Carter would trim. It comes out strongly for developing geothermal energy, which the Government's own scientists regard as only marginally promising...
...largest 1976 sales decline of any company on the FORTUNE 500 list; its revenues fell almost 34%, to $1.1 billion. At that, refiners are lucky; they have continued to make a profit ($43 million for Amstar last year) because their cost of buying raw sugar has fallen as fast as the price at which they sell the refined product. Growers in the U.S. and abroad are losing money. Moans Cane Grower J.R. Roane: "Louisiana will be out of business in another two years at this price level." The price collapse has badly hurt the Cuban economy; that is a major...
Director Peter Mark Schifter maintains a fast pace. He wisely realizes that if he relaxes even momentarily, this spirited farce will fall down, like a top that has lost its spin...