Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again, Cauthen may need to regain his almost mystical touch, the energy he seemed to communicate to horses through his skilled oversize hands. Then again, ex-Agent Goodman may have the best prescription: "Fast horses...
...firms are scaling back because since the 1974 oil crisis and recession, Europe's economy has been whiplashed by slow growth, sagging sales and fast-rising costs, particularly in labor. Even after inflation is taken into account, hourly wages since 1970 have jumped 61% in Belgium and 70% in Italy; in the U.S., they have increased by only 12%. With the U.S. now growing faster than Europe, multinational managers have to shave expenses or else risk having their European operations drag down the performance of the parent companies as well. As a result, businessmen are cutting their European costs...
...American Express Co. is to win its battle for McGraw-Hill Inc., the magazine, book and information-services giant, it will have to be by way of a revolt of Mc Graw-Hill shareholders against their own management. That was the upshot of fast-moving developments last week that abruptly switched the tide of battle in one of Wall Street's biggest takeover wars ever...
Back in New York, he started as a lowly flack, a pressagent. But he worked his way up so fast that, before the end of the Depression, he and his wife Hilda were able to move into the house on Gramercy Park, which for years had been subdivided into poky flats. No. 19 had been built in 1845, rebuilt in the 1860s and finally remodeled in the 1880s by Stanford White. It had fallen into disuse, and the Sonnenbergs, sensing their ideal domestic theater in it, began the long work of restoration, accumulating the furniture (Sheraton and Chippendale-pattern credenzas...
...Second Generation, Fast...