Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its overpowering speed, Harvard has been able to play a fast break offense for most of the season. But facing the wind in the second half Saturday, the Crimson was forced to utilize the passing skills it's been hiding most of the season...
...changes in farming, but at a high price: widespread rural unemployment. To soak up excess labor and concentrate land in the hands of the most efficient peasants, China has launched a rural industrialization drive that has resulted in smokestacks, water towers and silos sprouting up in the provinces as fast as rice seedlings...
...still have sizable cash reserves. At Drexel Burnham Lambert, which last year financed more takeovers than any other Wall Street firm, Chief Executive Frederick Joseph contends that "there is still a lot of capital out there." If that is true, the takeover game could soon become as fast paced as it was in pre-crash days...
Free-marketeers like Feldstein would just as soon let that happen and get it over with. Says Herbert Stein: "The dollar should be allowed to decline as far and as fast as it will." But that course runs a gigantic risk: a free- falling dollar could easily touch off a panic flight of foreign capital from the U.S. That is about the last thing anyone wants, since it could trigger a worldwide financial collapse. It would be much better to renegotiate the Louvre accord to allow a gentle, managed decline in the dollar. As part of such an agreement, foreign...
...fast-paced film is about "just some poor schmuck walking down the street, reading his popular magazine when he gets struck by lightning and dies," the North House resident said. In the technically sophisticated film, the character tumbles into the afterlife, where he experiences both heaven and hell...