Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Woodward is a lying scumbag," movie director John Landis told a crowd of nearly 200 at the Hasty Pudding Theatre. In 1984, Woodward wrote "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi," a national bestseller...
Ever since the advent of AIDS, two questions have been haunting Americans. How far and how fast is the incurable and almost invariably fatal disease likely to spread? And does it pose a threat to the general public -- that is, the vast majority of people who are neither homosexuals, bisexuals nor intravenous drug users...
...probing questions are being asked about the stock market and its relationship to U.S. capitalism in general. Has the market become more volatile, risky and perhaps more irrational than ever before? Is it suddenly too treacherous for the ordinary investor? Is the very function of the market changing, as fast-buck artists crowd in to pursue big quick returns that have little or nothing to do with industry or commerce? Have the values of the gambling hall undermined the role of stock trading as a means of productive, long-term investment? In short: Is the new stock market good...
...savings and loan associations and savings banks have either been reorganized or forced by the FSLIC to merge with other institutions this year. As the agency reimburses depositors at collapsed savings and loans and pays out large sums to healthy institutions that agree to absorb weaker ones, it is fast running out of funds. FSLIC officials say its reserves will have shrunk by the end of the year to a precariously low $1 billion, down from $4.6 billion at the end of 1985. The General Accounting Office estimates that the FSLIC will need to give out as much...
...competed and coached in 10 different sports and tennis is the toughest," Sweeney, in blue sweats and cap in the orange-and-black school colors, said during a recent fast-paced practice session with a 19-year-old teammate whom he finally beat 6-4. "That's why it's such a good game...