Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orange, compares the mood to "gold-rush fever." Says Stockbroker Trevor Spruston: "The atmosphere challenges everyone's drive." It also encourages second starts, says Alan Rypinski. He made one fortune producing a protective coating for vinyl and rubber called Armor All, stumbled financially with an auto boutique and a fast-food spaghetti business, and is now trying to pile up another bundle selling a product that removes wrinkles from fabric. Says Rypinski: "It's pretty easy to recover. There's so much going...
Steven's lawyers contended that the killings could have been the work of young Scott's enemies, made during a fast-track life of girl chasing and drug buying. Scott, it was disclosed after the murders, was the out-of-wedlock son of Carol Lynn; he had been legally adopted by his grandmother...
...detectives, who have appeared in 13 novels, are the mainstay of a popularity that has seen more than 1 million copies of Rendell's books printed in English; she has also been translated into 14 other languages. Still, Wexford and Burden are fast becoming the bane of her career. Whenever Rendell makes a public appearance, readers are apt to tell her that they could do with fewer explorations into the midnight of the mind. Says the author: "It is very difficult for the creator of a series character to realize that he is very much more real and important...
...different personalities. West Berlin (pop. 2.1 million) is a city with insomnia. By day the streets hum as dark-suited businessmen brush impatiently past roller skaters clad in little more than G-strings, and camera-laden tourists gawk at punk couples in Dracula makeup and matching spiky hairdos. So fast is the tempo that when a quarrel erupted recently between two West Berliners, the story goes, one snapped at the other, "Slap yourself for me. I don't have time." At night the city grows more manic still, with revelers jamming its cabarets, dance halls and 23-hour...
...ensure that whatever was agreed to in Moscow would not be torpedoed back in Washington. In addition to Nitze and Perle, the delegation includes the top U.S. negotiators in Geneva and other experts. The U.S. was quick to accept the Soviet invitation as a way to give a "fast start" to summit preparations...