Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since TMI, the public has become aware of how crucial the nuclear issue is, and has begun to give the government and nuclear industry some well-deserved skepticism. Antinuclear sentiment is fast becoming a majority position in national public opinion polls, as undecideds decide against and pronukers seriously reconsider their stance. Nuclear power is now an issue all politicians and would-be politicians must take a stand on. Their various nuclear moratorium proposals range from a temporary freeze on new plant licensings to a demand that no new reactors be built--while allowing the scores of plants presently planned...
...runners went into the race expecting a quick start, Amble said, but the pack stayed fairly close together for the first mile and a half, with no one wanting to set a fast pace...
...crowd, urging them to visit Bayside, N.Y., "The Lourdes of America." Bayside, apparently, is run by a seer named Veronica Leucken. Her pamphlet includes a plea to the Pope to "convert Russia" and to "save the world from the great flames of the Ball of Redemption that fast approaches." She also inveighs against communion by hand...
...platinum and palladium have also soared, as have those of diamonds, pearls, stamps, art and antiques. In the past month silver has risen 65%, while gold has gone up 23%, partly because its relatively low price per ounce attracts speculators. The popularity of such tangible assets reflects a fast-deepening distrust of all paper currencies in a period of scary inflation. For some extreme pessimists, the phenomenon has raised the specter of the Weimar era in Germany in the early 1920s, when wheelbarrow loads of notes were needed to buy a loaf of bread. Essentially, the price of gold...
...anomaly, however, is the fact that despite the heights that interest rates have reached, there has been no shortage of cash for borrowers. Indeed, the money supply grew at a fast annual rate of close to 13% in the past two months. Though Volcker feels that the growth should be curbed, the spread of such financial innovations as credit cards and savings certificates tied to Treasury bill rates have lessened the Fed's ability to control the nation's money stock...