Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people later asked if they could buy copies. Seeing a potential market, Levitan produced a 40-minute video yearbook the following year and sold 100 copies at $45 each. His company now has a roster of 20 clients, including such universities as Princeton, Brown and Michigan. The tapes are fast-paced, smoothly edited overviews of the school year, with scenes of everything from basketball games to campus demonstrations...
...fast-track careers of Novelists Jay McInerney, 31, and Bret Easton Ellis, 23, have intriguing parallels. McInerney's 1984 best-selling fictional debut, Bright Lights, Big City, chronicled the downward spiral of an unnamed young writer who delves into New York City's nightclub netherworld with the help of his fast-talking best friend, Tad Allagash. Next year Ellis' Less than Zero caused a publishing sensation with its stark portrayal of sybaritic youth in suburban Los Angeles. Both writers' books are currently being made into major motion pictures. And both writers are slated to come out with new novels within...
Well, not exactly. If Du Page and dozens of other fast-growing counties all over the U.S. are beginning to look like spread-out cities, most of their residents can still loll in a hammock in a spacious backyard on a late-spring evening. But these counties are hardly suburbs anymore, at least in the traditional sense of being bedroom communities for nearby cities. Not only jobs but also gourmet restaurants and chic stores are close at hand. As a result, people like Engineer Daniel Nee, a resident of Gwinnett County, Ga., 18 miles from Atlanta, commonly go six months...
...snarls are the No. 1 gripe everywhere. Offices and beaches may be close by, but getting to them can be as time consuming and nerve jangling as making the haul between suburb and city. During a stifling spring heat wave two weeks ago, one couple in Long Island's fast-growing Suffolk County took 1 hr. 15 min. to sweat through 15 miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic between their home and the ocean beachfront of Robert Moses State Park. Du Page County's Morton Arboretum, a popular spot for local outings, is becoming a walled fortress. Managers are erecting...
Curious hikers get a close look at Mount St. Helens, where nature is bouncing back fast seven years after the dramatic eruption...