Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With those words and after months of cautious deliberation and disagreement within his Administration, President Ronald Reagan finally unveiled a plan for combatting AIDS -- and further fueled the furious debate over how best to contain the virus. The question is fast becoming one of the most hotly contested issues both in Washington and on the international political agenda. As evidence of growing concern, 6,082 AIDS researchers and public health officials from 50 countries gathered in Washington for the largest conference ever devoted exclusively to the disease...
...Labor Party was anything but panicky, though, as the campaign moved toward Thursday's election. Unlike its effort under Michael Foot four years ago, Labor under Kinnock has waged a slick campaign that had its leaders exuding confidence. "We are closing fast," claimed Kinnock. Indeed, some polls did show the Tory lead sagging. A Gallup survey last week revealed support for the Conservatives dropping by four points, to 40.5%, compared with Labor's 36.5% and the Social Democratic-Liberal Party Alliance's 21.5%. Thatcher nonetheless seemed destined to become the first Prime Minister in this century to win three consecutive...
Activity: Madison plays the piano, jazz and Gospel, beautifully. "Music was like talking to myself," he says. When he was 10 he had lessons in classical music for 10 months and made progress so fast that in less than a year he found himself playing in a competition for people with four or five years of experience. He said he entered the competition because he wanted to compete with his friend Carl who had been playing for several years. "Madison Sample was cocky at that stage," he admits...
...school year, Bok and Spence agreed that more tenure appointments needed to be made, saying they had stemmed from demographic oddities which had brought about an unusually high number of fast approaching retirements. The question is whether the departmental tensions can be overcome to enable these senior appointments to be made...
MANY OF God's creatures are built for speed: The lean and hungry cheetah. The soaring spine-tailed swift. And let us not forget the turbo-charged Ferrari 380 GTS. But fast as they are, not one of these will able to touch my heels the moment that $64,000 piece of parchment touches my palms. Like a bat out of hell, Alyshiba out of the gate or Larry Bird out of the back court, I will be out of Harvard so fast it will make your head swim and your crops wilt...