Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mostly silent, hunched over their sheets of cards. Occasionally a cheer will go up and cowbells will ring when someone yells "Bingo!" They scurry up, to a smattering of applause, to the platform in the center of the room to get their cash. If they don't scurry fast enough the other players hoot at them to hurry so they can get on with the game...
Hachette joins a fast-growing list of foreign publishers operating in the U.S. Just last February, Britain's Pearson paid $283 million to take over Addison-Wesley, a Massachusetts-based textbook maker. As the buyouts continue, U.S. publishing may become increasingly like its European counterpart, an industry that is dominated by a few behemoths...
...toward states with lower percentages of black voters. He was frustrated that Jackson's poetry had eclipsed the prose of his solid antidrug record. As Governor he created the Alliance Against Drugs in 1984; he claims that drug use among high school seniors in Massachusetts subsequently declined twice as fast as the national average. In Westchester County, Dukakis told a well-heeled gathering of party activists that the "most serious threat to our national security is not the Sandinistas, but the avalanche of drugs flowing into this country." The line echoes one of Jackson's; when Dukakis used...
...Hardly a week has gone by this spring without a ballyhooed announcement of a new semiconductor or a line of high-speed computers. At the center of the excitement is a new breed of microprocessors that promises to give computer manufacturers their biggest performance boost in a decade. Lightning fast, the chips make it possible to put the power of ten to 20 refrigerator-size minicomputers into a single desktop-size machine...
...breed of lightning- fast silicon chips challenges 25 years of computer design. -- Has the picture phone finally arrived...