Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argument runs like this: Small farmers are an anachronism in the computer age. Because they lack "technical expertise" these vestiges of a past era are fast selling out to the farm "manager" who "reflects wistfully" that he spends more time in a three-piece suit than in his fields. The new archetype of the farmers "who make U.S. agriculture the nation's most efficient and productive industry" is Pat Benedict, who has $3.5 million in assets, 3,500 acres planted in wheat and sugar beets, and who averages a return of 3.5 per cent on his investment. Pat runs...
...amazes me. She's such an exceptional athlete," he says. "She's very gifted and fast. She's determined. She does what is very difficult for a coach to get a player to do. She finishes plays; she scores the goals...
...Joseph Magnin, Taryn Stenman, 22, worked as a maid for six months and found that she made so many connections as a result of cleaning homes that she started her own catering service. "People can use this type of job as a steppingstone," she says. "It's a fast way to make money and it's the type of job you can always find." Fred and Harriet Hoffman, who once employed servants of their own, turned to domestic work when Fred's antique business faltered. At $10 an hour, they make enough to afford...
...America. But even some of its early promoters have had a change of heart. Architect Victor Gruen, who designed suburban Detroit's Northland and Eastland, Chicago's Randhurst and Philadelphia's Cherry Hill, as well as other successful shopping centers, is disillusioned with the ugliness and fast-buck approach of many projects. Says he: "I refuse to pay alimony for those bastard developments...
...Second Generation, Fast...