Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Celtics slowed the Los Angeles running game, holding the Lakers to six fast-break baskets, and won Game 3 of the NBA championship series, 109-103. Boston got 30 points and 12 rebounds from Larry Bird and 26 points from Dennis Johnson in the victory, which left the Lakers still leading the NBA finals...
...seven of the tales in Fast Lanes, however, sort through the bric-a-brac of unmade lives: "It was September of 1974, most of us would leave town in a few weeks, and I had been recently pregnant. Some of us were going to Belize to survive an earthquake. Some of us were going to California . . . My lover, the carpenter, was going to Nicaragua on a house-building deal that would never materialize. We'd had passport photos taken together; he would use his passport in the company of someone else and I would lose mine somewhere in Arizona...
...greater than is common among her despair-addicted contemporaries, as is her fugitive grace. Where Ann Beattie's characters, for instance, are habitually on Valium, Phillips' are generally on speed; while Beattie's have surrendered to nothingness, Phillips' are still in search of something. Nearly all the stories in Fast Lanes are, like their characters, fascinated with gymnasts, tightrope walkers and others who find ways to steady and ground themselves. And the best of them achieve that same happy balance of passion and precision that one Phillips character imagines from an angelic piper, "formal as a harpsichord yet buoyant, wild...
...describing magnetically levitated superfast trains as one of the benefits of high-temperature superconductors, you fail to recognize U.S. accomplishments in the area of fast trains. The speed record for a railway vehicle (steel wheels running on steel rails) is 255 m.p.h., set at the U.S. Department of Transportation test center in August 1974. Then, in discussing Japan's magnetically levitated train, you say its speed can be attributed to the lack of friction. You ignore the fact that at high speeds much of the resistance to forward motion is air resistance, which affects levitated trains too. Finally, you state...
...finally led to Texaco's bankruptcy filing in April. On the other hand, Holmes a Court's purchase may mean that he believes a settlement between the two sides is in the wind, a development that would push up Texaco's stock price and earn Holmes a Court a fast profit...