Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depends on welfare to support her four-year-old son. According to her family, she has a heroin habit, was arrested for possession and distribution, and is awaiting trial. Her sister Lovette, nicknamed "Betsy," was also a drug abuser; she lived a short life in the fast lane. Betsy had her first child at 16 and a second by a different father at 19. She wore the hippest threads, went to the trendiest places, and consumed drugs as casually as most people eat hamburgers. Crack. Marijuana. Codeine. One afternoon this past April, the youngest of the sisters, Kemya, found...
...kilns are mounded, cavelike structures of concrete, lighted by air holes in the curved roofs. There is a door at either end, and Ray backed his truck in one. Inside the kiln, soot coated the walls. It was damp and smelled of wet chimney. Ray worked fast, standing on the truck bed, stacking his load on a base left by another woodcutter, filling the kiln up to the ceiling 5 ft. above his head. His safety depends on how well the previous woodcutter stacked his load. Once, warned by a slight noise, he had just enough time to jump away...
...Federal Aviation Administration and the airlines firmly deny that safety standards have generally deteriorated under deregulation. But an unflattering spotlight is now being focused on the maintenance practices of one major carrier: Eastern Air Lines. Eastern's mechanics say they are under enormous pressure from management to work fast on the ground so that planes can spend more time in the air earning money. Supporting that charge, the airline's pilots since June have written more than 1,000 letters of complaint to the FAA and hundreds to Congress about Eastern's allegedly sloppy maintenance...
According to King, Eastern foremen have a good reason to defer maintenance: they can earn bonuses for getting planes out of the hangar fast. Under an Eastern incentive program started in January, the airline's employees set performance goals for themselves, subject to management approval. In the case of the Boston maintenance station, the goal is to make sure that less than 4% of all flights miss their scheduled departure times because of delays resulting from repairs, preflight loading, cleaning or the like. King says one supervisor earned an extra $800 through the incentive program in the first three months...
...familiar subjects, from TV commercials to dating. Their lineage can be traced directly to two influential comics of the 1960s and '70s, George Carlin and Robert Klein. Both rooted their material in the commonplace concerns and shared memories of the baby-boom generation (especially TV) and perfected a lithe, fast-paced style that combined one- liners with a free-flowing melange of characters and scenes...