Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those citizens of the oil patch with long memories, boom and bust cycles are as natural as Texas tumbleweeds and summer windstorms. What is different about the current collapse, though, is the speed with which it struck. Says Historian Fehrenbach: "Nothing in the past has come on as fast as this." For the moment, then, people can do little more than hold on, hoping that the cycle will one day turn again...
While learning their lessons, though, the industrial nations suffered great economic hardship. The price increase virtually sucked money out of the countries as fast as they could print it, which slowed growth and aggravated inflation and unemployment. Many Western countries finally began to break free of that pattern this year, thanks to falling interest rates and the decline in oil prices. Conservation measures now enable the industrial economies to grow without increasing energy use at the same rate. Between 1973 and 1985, the U.S. economy expanded by almost one-third while energy consumption fell slightly. Says Rimmer de Vries, chief...
...summit, thank you. But even if both sides agree to keep planning for a summit, it will take much more to dispel the sour atmosphere that has developed between the superpowers since the Geneva meeting. In fact it may tax diplomats' ingenuity to keep relations from deteriorating further, and fast...
...subtlety, drama and emotion may have been left back in the 19th century, but Keshishian's adaptation is a fast-paced, techno-pop extravaganza. It's not deep but it's solid, homespun student theater '80s style...
While Reagan on Wednesday night declined to blame Khadafy outright for the bombings at the discotheque and aboard a TWA jetliner over Greece, he said that "We're gathering evidence as fast...