Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pick 850 lbs. of cotton to pay for it. That was hard times. And when he was digging graves, he got $15 a grave, and the worst business ever was a three week period when nobody died. "Then all of a sudden they all started dying too fast; I dug so many graves I couldn't walk...
...songs sound punchy all right, real straight-ahead, pedal-to-the-floor rock with no fancy instrumentation, just the sort of thing to come floating back from the window of a car that is moving too fast in the passing lane. Simple, direct, traditional, without the calculated callowness of retro rock. Despite the modest claims of Neumann and Llanas, the echoes of the BoDeans' music cut past the surface calm. These tunes have a strong undertow...
...company said that it was buying the National Journal (circ. 5,100), a prestigious Washington weekly. Once known mainly for its flagship paper, the Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror now draws about 40% of its revenues from its East Coast operations. One star performer: Newsday (circ. 582,388), a fast-growing Long Island daily that is ambitiously expanding its distribution in New York City...
...according to consumer demand. An IBM personal computer at the bar continuously recalculates the prices, and a printout from the machine provides steady commentary, like the bulletins on a stock ticker: "Relance de haddock" (Haddock on the rebound) or "Pieds de cochon en vif recul" (Pigs' feet dropping fast). The restaurant is a hit, explains one of the owners, because it reflects the latest rage in Paris: free enterprise...
...price controls and a reduction in taxes, the Chirac administration is trying to spur business activity by easing the constraints of government regulation. In addition, it plans to return some 50 state-controlled banks, industrial firms and other enterprises to the private sector. Said Chirac: "We must now go fast and far. France must change...