Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American industry and heralding the conversion of the U.S. to a service economy. Overwhelmed by a tide of imports, U.S. manufacturing firms were accounting for a dwindling portion of the gross national product and generating a shrinking share of total employment. At the same time, service businesses ranging from fast-food outlets to financial conglomerates seemed to be where the action was. Soon, the seers said, Americans would all be flipping burgers, selling software or shining one another's Italian shoes...
...through binoculars. "Got them," says Trevino. "Looks like they are heading back into the scrub." Laurel quickly checks the position of another Border Patrol unit, which has been maneuvering to cut the gang off from the river. "We need to bust them now," Laurel radios. "We're coming in fast...
Even so, the Americans did not give up. They mounted a camera above the scroll and, using powerful flashes and fast shutter speeds to lessen the chance of blurring, worked quickly to capture the document with nearly every imaginable combination of lighting and film. Some blocks of text were photographed as many as 70 times. The breakthrough came when the document was lit from behind and shot with a special Japanese-made infrared film. Recalls Zuckerman: "When we developed the first set of negatives, focusing on one column of text, we could immediately see stuff we couldn...
...next year's Final Four featured the Motown sound of the Hrkae circus of North Dakota. I remember the Hobey Baker Award winner controlling the play as precisely as Magic Johnson runs a Laker fast break...
...ECAC Fast Fact...