Word: fasted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unfortunately, the curiosity probably be gone by the end of the first season, and the new league will probably disappear as fast as the United States Football League...
...issue is the increasing number of delays. Complaints to the Transportation Department about late flights and poor service reached 4,893 in the first quarter of this year, a 43% increase from the same period in 1986. Neither U.S. airports nor the ranks of air- traffic controllers have grown fast enough to keep up with the increase in flights that deregulation has set loose. The Transportation Department, under growing pressure from Congress, is proposing to hire more controllers and to require airlines to meet standards for on-time performance...
...however, conflicts over warmaking authority could no longer be suppressed. The U.S. emerged as a global superpower, committed to the defense of allies against another superpower, the Soviet Union, and its clients. The chances of shooting incidents multiplied greatly. The terrible power of modern weapons increased the premium on fast action, which could not wait for an old-fashioned declaration of war. The threat of nuclear holocaust dictated the need to limit whatever wars did start. That also worked against declarations of war and simultaneously made difficult, if not impossible, a clean-cut victory...
Your article on megacounties, the fast-growing, sprawling suburbs ((NATION, June 15)), failed to highlight one of the most frightening aspects of these neo-urban communities: their stultifying similarity to one another. With their flashy office buildings and cookie-cutter shopping malls, bars and theme restaurants, megacounties like Orange County, Calif., and Johnson County, Kans., are not only interchangeable, they are indistinguishable. I despair to think of a generation whose idea of local color is watering holes such as Houlihan's or TGI Friday...
...David Riesman likens the Constitution to the shallow keel of the national ferryboat, on which the passengers keep shifting from port to starboard and back again. One might also suggest the image of a trimaran -- a craft with three hulls (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) that is both stable and fast. Harvard's Paul Freund likes to think of the whole arrangement as a symphony orchestra or a jazz band...