Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of our graduates bring their planning skills to non-traditional jobs as policy and budget analysts and program managers. For example, four members of this year's graduating class have just been named Presidential Management Interns in a national competition to identify able young people for a "fast-track" in the federal civil service. Society clearly benefits from having well-trained professionals with strong analytic skills and sensitivity to urban problems. Our students' career choices thus strengthen the influence of the planning profession rather than dilute...
...race itself is a catharsis for all this tension. Boats begin from a dead standstill, and are quickly accelerated by short, fast strokes. The frenzy of those first few seconds is more than psychological--an oarsman must pull two square feet of wood through ten feet of water and return his oar for another stroke, all in a little more than one second. Several strokes into the race, the speed of rowing settles slightly, and the oarsman must precisely time his movements, keep the three-foot wide keel balanced, and maintain maximum power for some 200 additional strokes...
There were wildly differing figures being bandied about on just how fast profits have risen, in part because the Commerce Department study can be read in different ways. Annual pretax profits for the last quarter of 1978, when adjusted for the impact of inflation on depreciation and inventories, came to $177 billion. That was a compounded rise of 44% on an annual basis over the third quarter and 19.4% over the fourth quarter of 1977. Pretax profits, without inflation adjustments, rose 26.4% compared with a year earlier...
...supplied it-not out of any desire to create a product, but simply in order to maintain her own memories. "I like to paint old-timy things, historical landmarks of long ago, bridges, mills and hostelries, those old-time homes, there are a few left, and they are going fast. I do them all from memory, most of them are daydreams, as it were...
...Second Generation, Fast...