Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast-break lay-ups--but the squad sorely missed
...more than 30 years. He was elected last year to the board of governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers, the respected regulating arm of the over-the-counter stock industry. Freeman was a 22-year Goldman, Sachs veteran. Only the youthful Tabor could be described in fast-track terms. A Rhodes scholar, he held down the No. 2 job in Kidder's arbitrage department under Wigton. In 1986 he hopped to Chemical Bank to head a new arbitrage unit. When his views clashed with those of bank superiors, he moved again last June, to Merrill Lynch...
...math than their counterparts in other countries, Square One is a welcome addition. Aimed at eight-to-twelve-year-olds, it seeks to explain such basic concepts as percentages and probability and show how math can be used to solve everyday problems. The lessons are deftly couched in a fast-paced series of sketches that mimic what children know best: other TV shows...
What accounts for such a fast-rising crusade against an activity that was once considered sophisticated and until recently had at least been politely tolerated? One thing that happened was that Betty Carnes, an ornithologist, returned home from a 1969 expedition and found that her best friend, a 29- year-old mother of two, was dying of lung cancer. Her last request to Carnes was to "try to make people aware of the dangers of smoking." Carnes helped persuade the commercial air carriers to begin segregating smokers in the early '70s. In 1973 she spearheaded a movement that prodded...
...going to change our defense a bit," Delaney Smith said. "They have a secondary fast-break that we should be able to handle better than we did last time...