Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just loved the pool and was happy it was such a fast meet," Costello said. "Although I expected to make the consolation heat, I was still happy with my swims. It just makes you want to make the final eight next year...
Festivo's succeeded Scoops to Nuts in early March so fast that there was barely time to notice. The candy store was among several recent victims of high rents and newly monied clienteles in a changing Harvard Square...
...knack for developing and selling new products. A recent study done for the National Science Foundation that attempts to measure the quality of patented products and processes suggests that Japanese innovations may on average be more significant than those of their American rivals. Moreover, the Japanese are snaring a fast-growing share of all U.S. patents. Last year, for the first time ever, the top three recipients of American patents were Japanese: Canon, Hitachi and Toshiba. General Electric, which had held the No. 1 spot for at least 25 years, until 1986, was in fourth place...
...patent may be cited in later applications because it represents an important historical precedent for future inventions but the original patent may never lead to anything that can be profitably produced. Patents are more important in businesses where technology moves relatively slowly, like the pharmaceutical industry, than in fast-changing fields such as electronics and computer science...
...Rather than an economy-wide downturn, he says, the U.S. has been experiencing a "rolling recession" that has moved from one sector to another without halting overall growth. While agriculture, the oil business and heavy industries like steel have slumped in recent years, high-tech companies, financial services and fast-food outlets have thrived. Now retailers and stockbrokers may be facing hard times, but farming and manufacturing are recovering...