Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Currie said that Harvard and many other schools moved too fast during the sixties in admitting minorities into the MBA program. He said lowering standards for minorities served to penalize those minority students who were well qualified, and who would "in effect be receiving a second class degree...
...Bach's incessant running up and down scales turned the first motif of "1-2-3-4-5-6," holding up each finger in fast succession, into breathless slapstick. Choreographer Black added other motifs one by one--slow-motion rolling, runner's ready position, broad glissades--and bumped one into the next in various combinations. Relying on the humor of incongruity, she popped the fast-counting fingers into the most inappropriate moments...
...figures point to a healthy, not wild recovery-but do contain a promise of further acceleration in the months to come. The fast pace of consumer spending and sales is keeping businessmen from rebuilding the inventories they slashed deeply last year. If sales stay strong, retailers will have to step up their orders for new goods to rebuild stockpiles so that they do not run out of items that customers want to buy. Result: production increases later this year that will be larger than expected...
...that stock prices and trading volume trace on charts. He bolsters his chart readings with studies in physics (for the laws of motion), music (for rhythm) and crowd psychology. He has evolved his own gauges of the market, including the "speed-resistance line" (a measure of how far and fast prices have risen or fallen) and the "senti-meter" (a ratio of the prices of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones average to the cash dividends that owners of those stocks receive...
...Swinger), Kodak began cracking on its own process. Says David Eisendrath, a photo consultant for TIME and Modern Photography: "Kodak finally realized what Polaroid knew from the start-that there are people who want to take good pictures, and other people who want to see them as fast as possible. The latter group is much larger than the former." If that is so, Kodak v. Polaroid may well turn into a battle that both companies win as both share in an expanding market...