Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kahn added that most bicycle thieves are juveniles and that the word gets out fast that Harvard isn't an easy place to steal bikes anymore...
...attractive, but he's tough in business. John also has a quality of dash that goes with his hobby of flying planes." Yet Backe is not well known at Black Rock -his offices were in a publishing house on Madison Avenue-and he will have to learn fast about the rest of the company, particularly its broadcasting area. He will get help, of course, from the man who likes being needed-and plans to keep on filling that key role at CBS as long as possible-William S. Paley...
Despite huge federal subsidies ($502 million in fiscal '76), U.S. maritime employment has continued to fall; today there are only 27,000 seafaring jobs v. 66,000 ten years ago. One reason: new ships corning into service are twice as big and twice as fast as those they replace and need far fewer crew members. The unions thus battle to keep every job they can. MEBA President Jesse Calhoon has set up his union's own engineer-training institute in Baltimore, and its graduates receive preferential treatment for the few available engineering berths in the U.S. merchant marine...
...good as his word if he makes a verbal commitment (and a bad enemy to someone who breaks his word) Says Paramount Boss Barry Diller: "Ever since Dino arrived on the scene, the major studios have had to be much more on their toes. Dino moves fast and makes all his own decisions-none of this corporate delay for him." If Kong hits big-in the Jaws category-De Laurentiis could make $100 million...
...modernism, of course, is the mobile. The first to make sculpture move, Calder liked "the idea of an object floating-not supported. The use of a very long thread seems to best approximate this freedom from the earth." The movement, created by touch or air, may be slow or fast, ponderously deliberate or fluttery as an aspen, but it always has the purposed yet unpredictable grace of nature itself...