Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government's unhappy answer to a quarrel that predates the white man's arrival in the American West. The Hopi, a band of sedentary farmers, crafted the earliest of their distinctive apartment-like stone dwellings atop steep mesas in northern Arizona almost a millennium ago. The Navajo, a fast-growing tribe of hunters turned shepherds, arrived about 500 years later but proved more aggressive and dynamic. Eventually, the Navajo and their herds outnumbered and surrounded the Hopi and their crops. Hopi Chairman Ivan Sidney, 37, portrays his tribe as a peaceful people provoked to vengeance: "It's like growing...
minor sonata, Op. 5 (written when the composer was a mere 16 years old), recorded in 1982, Gould's incredibly clear playing is matched with appropriately fast tempos in the outer movements, and with a beautiful, singing melody line in the Adagio cantabile...
...were prepared to go fast with our computers," Pihl said. But because almost all the English as a Second Language students registered at the same time, the computers could not respond to information requests as quickly as usual. He said there will be a new system to solve that problem for next year...
...survey of 1200 researchers at 40 major universities nationwide also outlined potential benefits to universities of industry-funded research, which has grown twice as fast as government support this decade, from $135 million to $290 million...
...RECOGNIZE a lot of Ferris Bueller's Day Off the first time you see it. Like Joel in Risky Business, Ferris takes on a catchy motto (though "Life goes fast. If you don't watch out, you could miss it" just can't compare with "Sometimes you just gotta say `What the fuck."') and deceives all authority figures...