Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...culture of quickness has inspired smaller operators to accelerate their pace as well. In Los Angeles, for example, time-conscious consumers can flip through the telephone book to find Speedy Attorney Service, Fast Glass & Screens, Rapid Brake Service, Instant Wedding Chapel and Swift Secretarial Service. The dry-cleaning listings of any phone directory look like a thesaurus entry for the word fast, including the omnipresent 1-Hour Martinizing shops and archrivals with such names as Prompt Cleaners, Presto Cleaners and One-Hour Lusterizing...
Time-saving products and services exist all over the world, but America has a special talent for inventing ones for which the necessity had previously gone unrecognized. The birth of McDonald's in 1955 gave rise to a fast-food industry that serves 45.8 million people in the U.S. a day. The sluggishness of the Postal Service in the 1970s helped spawn a whole new industry: overnight delivery. Federal Express, started by former Marine Corps Pilot Frederick Smith in 1973, ships nearly 12 million packages a month...
...most important sandwich is undoubtedly the hamburger, whether the thin patty made famous by fast-food chains or the thicker chopped-steak version, epitomized by the specimen at Acorn on Oak, a bar and grill in Chicago. Most familiar among workaday sandwiches are the coffee-shop regulars: bacon, lettuce and tomato, tuna or egg salad, the classic combo of ham and Swiss cheese, grilled cheese and bacon and the lavish club, a three-slice pileup with two "decks" of filling that at its purest includes sliced chicken, bacon, tomato and lettuce. Less orthodox but currently more fashionable in New York...
...fans are more loyal to sandwiches than children. Their parents may feel that hot food on a plate is more nutritious than a fast cold meal, but children at school cafeterias can be observed making sandwiches out of everything, including spaghetti with meat sauce stuffed into hamburger buns, so they can eat quickly and have time to play...
Business leaders have reacted enthusiastically to the Chirac revolution but have lately grown concerned that he is not moving fast enough to put his program in place. The Confederation Nationale du Patronat Francais, which represents 90% of France's major companies, has long argued that excessive state regulation was smothering the economy. Since 1980, according to C.N.P.F. President Yvon Gattaz, France's share of the world market for manufactured goods has dropped from 10.2% to 8.2%. The reasons for this decline, says Gattaz, include a "punitive" corporate tax and the substantial charges that companies must pay for their employees' social...