Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest five-year international tin-pricing agreement. The U.S. also is leaning toward negotiating accords on several other raw materials. Despite these hopeful signs, however, the current rise in commodity prices is an unnerving reminder that the industrial world's recovery could conceivably self-destruct by going too fast...
What went wrong? Just about everything. Rohr, says one analyst who follows the company, "tried to do too much too fast." It underestimated the cost of new vehicles and spent more than it could afford-about $15 million in the past three years-on research and development of its dream vehicles and other new products. The 1974-75 recession wiped out orders just when the company desperately needed an influx of new business to cover development costs (its high sales came from longstanding orders). In addition, Rohr got into disputes with customers over the quality of those vehicles...
...hope may rest too much on that one arm. Because Schmidt is weak on technique and her approach run is slow, she has to compensate with her fast arm movement and astonishing power. Pro Shotputter Brian Oldfield calls her "all arm. If she gets some speed, she'll hit 240 ft." No devotee of training-she chain-smokes Tareyton 100s and quaffs beer with true zeal-Schmidt will check in at Montreal at 6 ft. 1 in. and 178 Ibs., some 10 Ibs. heavier than she would like -the excess due more to weightlifting than beverages. Schmidt also will...
Still some of the fans were unhappy at their seats and some hadn't even bothered to come. A puffy little man sat in the back row, muttering in a fast matter over and over to himself, but he had bombed in his 1968 appearance in Chicago, and after all, this was the big time...
...circuit-leading Mudhens, and the "writers"-as athletes tend to call reporters-are crowded into the Hornet locker room. There in the whirlpool bath is Ace Hurler Ace Hurley, naked as a slow curve, telling a cub reporter how he fanned the last three enemy swatters. She is scribbling fast...