Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even for the best-endowed Third and Fourth World states, development will be a long, slow process. "We warn those who today demand a fast redistribution of wealth not to be impatient," declared West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in a recent New York speech. "In Europe, the process of industrialization has so far lasted about 200 years." Modern methods of agriculture, in fact, advanced through Europe in the 19th century at the snail's pace of only a few miles yearly...
Feeling of Power. Since most models are bulky, the watches so far have sold mainly to men. One reason for their appeal is the first-on-the-block-to-own-one syndrome, though this attraction will fade fast; digitals are expected to sell for as little as $20 in 1976. Another reason why some people like digitals, according to a watch-company executive, "is that it makes them feel powerful-at the push of a button, they can command the time." Says Manhattan-based Writer Jon Borgzinner: "I like it because when I pick it up at night...
...wisecracking, softhearted romantic adventure in which the major characters seem modeled on movie stars. With the shade of Jean Harlow peering over her cocked shoulder, Liza Minnelli plays a '20s rumrunner called Claire Dobie. Gene Hackman and Burt Reynolds, her partners in crime, are like Tracy and Gable, fast friends and occasional antagonists, both in love with Claire. These three amorous buddies run booze up the California coast from Mexico, playing cat-and-mouse with the Coast Guard and doing battle with the Mob boys who frown on independent action. They get rich and get shot at, sometimes...
...where there isn't much in the way of variety. Mississippi, though, is a different story, and if you take the Birmingham route you'll pass through its entire lower half. It's near-wilderness in a lot of places. There's no traffic, and you can go as fast as you want. Walker Percy called Mississippi a paradise, and he was right; it's the best place on the route for perfect highway buzz, cruising along, alone, the land stretching out before you, feeling completely in control of your whereabouts and direction...
...teams traded the lead during the opening minutes of the second stanza. Midway through the period, with Radcliffe behind by four points, the Bruins finally adjusted to the Civic Center court. Two fast-break buckets followed by a successful outside shot ran the Brown lead up to ten points...