Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelling intensifies and grows more accurate, however, the mujahedin who are not part of the gun crews decide to move to safer ground. They scamper west along the ridge, then start down the long, steep slopes, moving fast. One guerrilla is missing a foot, blown off by an antipersonnel mine a year ago. He moves as fast as the others, hopping nimbly with the aid of a walking stick...
...most ambitious competition is the race to build the first optical computer, considered a practical impossibility only a few years ago. In theory, photons would race through such a machine with near perfect efficiency, which would make an optical computer 1,000 times as fast as the most advanced of modern electronic supercomputers. AT&T took a significant step toward that faraway goal in June by producing the first optical equivalent of a transistor. The Japanese, meanwhile, are developing a hybrid microchip that combines the most efficient aspects of electronics and optics. Declares Alan Huang, director...
...licensing of comic logos and story lines to outside entrepreneurs has been a major help in bringing profits back to the business. Marvel has licensed Spider-Man and other characters to children's apparel maker Just 4 Kids, Hallmark Cards and Prism Entertainment. Archie Comics is working with a fast-food chain on a restaurant with all-American fare that would feature the faces of the kids from Riverdale High...
...other first-term Republicans in the farm belt have found themselves in dead-even races. Idaho's flamboyant Steve Symms, who has taken heat for the state's economic decline as well as his reputation for a fast-paced life- style, is being challenged by Democratic Governor John Evans, a folksy moderate. In North Dakota, Senator Mark Andrews blew a 12-point lead over Democratic Tax Commissioner Kent Conrad when he erroneously claimed that grain prices had been rising and took credit for the nonexistent increase. In Missouri, the acrimonious race between former Republican Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond and Democratic...
Since U.S. universities graduate some 37,000 lawyers, 16,000 doctors and 51,000 accountants annually, plenty of labor power is available. Upscale service agencies are springing up to match that supply with the new demand. Temporary agencies that place physicians are an especially fast-growing group. Atlanta's Locum Tenens, founded in 1983, has 2,000 doctors on call. The agency's revenues last year reached $3 million, twice the 1984 total. Typically, a general-practice doctor hired through Locum Tenens is paid a fee of $440 a day. The agency provides malpractice coverage and travel expenses...