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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March, however, Connally hopes to leap ahead with big victories in Florida and Illinois, thinking he can there eliminate his conservative challenger from California. "If I can nick Reagan," he says, "he will come down fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot on the Campaign Trail | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...NASA's Ames Research Center, near San Francisco, scientists fretted in their seats. But as the pictures flashed onto the screen, the tension eased. After a journey of 6½ years, the small unmanned Pioneer 11 spacecraft was fast approaching Saturn, whose image was being sent back with more clarity than could be obtained by any earth-bound telescope. One especially intriguing view, taken by the robot from a distance of 3.2 million km (2 million miles), showed both the giant ringed planet, a huge gaseous sphere 815 times larger than earth, and its major moon, Titan, where scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Swinging by Saturn | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...Fast sales from a big tease and a tight squeeze

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Topless Jeans Make the Scene | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...scene is jarringly surrealistic. For thousands of square miles, there is nothing but the endless green of the Amazon rain forest, forbidding, primeval, untamed. Then, on a remote bend of the Jari River, a fast-flowing tributary, the vista changes dramatically. There, as tall as a 16-story building, stands a monument to modern engineering: a brand-new, spanking-white pulp plant, which reaches out with ducts, cables and conveyor belts to a wood-chipping mill, a chemical factory and a power generating facility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billionaire Ludwig's Brazilian Gamble | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...clear the land of old growth and establish huge new timber farms. The principal planting is the Gmelina arborea (pronounced malina ar-bor-ea), a hardwood native to Burma and India that grows to 15 in. in diameter in five years and 30 in twelve, or roughly twice as fast as the southern pine, a major source of American pulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billionaire Ludwig's Brazilian Gamble | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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