Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last part of Ishtar returns to the funny, fast pace of the early scenes in New York. There's a great gag having to do with a blind camel and a scene in which Hoffman pretends to speak a Berber dialect is hysterical...
...center in Nagoya to test equipment made from * superconducting materials. In Washington, the Department of Energy has decided to double this year's research support for superconductors to $40 million; it is also compiling a computerized database that will enable American scientists to keep up to date on fast-breaking superconductor research results, and will co-sponsor a White House conference on superconductivity this summer. "It's a monumental subject," says Energy Secretary John Herrington. "It ranks up there with the laser." In the Senate, Minnesota Republican David Durenberger has co-sponsored a bill calling on the President to form...
...unmanned Japan Railways Group prototype fitted with low-temperature superconducting electromagnets hit 321 m.p.h. on a test track; a version carrying three passengers made it to 249 m.p.h. earlier this year. That beats any conventional rival, including Japan's celebrated bullet train, which goes as fast as 149 m.p.h., and the French TGV, which provides the world's fastest regularly scheduled rail service, at speeds of up to 186 m.p.h...
...with pride to their jet builders. Boeing and McDonnell Douglas won more than 65% of world orders for commercial passenger planes last year. But that dominant position grows more precarious by the day. Europe's Airbus Industrie, which once seemed like a tiny speck on the horizon, is closing fast with hot new planes and cut-rate prices. Subsidized by European governments and charged by its rivals with making underhanded deals to win sales, Airbus has brought fiercer competition to an industry that has never been tranquil. It has also sparked a serious trade dispute between...
...there is concern about whether the clinics are overly accommodating. Leah Dills, 32, who has visited Woman's Care Center in San Francisco at least eight times in the past six months, says the clinic seems a "little test happy," adding "there's a little bit of a fast-food kind of feel about the place...