Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...England college students, the pilgrimage to Freeport is now fast becoming the weekend equivalent of Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale...
...must first survive the Senate, and already the advocates are queuing up to be heard. "I wish there were a secret elevator into the committee room," laments Senator David Pryor of Arkansas, a member of the Finance Committee. "Whenever I go there to vote, I try to walk fast and be reading something...
Nonetheless, some U.S. trading partners are afraid that the dollar has fallen too far, too fast. Japanese firms are considering a second round of price increases because of the rising yen, which has gained 25% against the dollar in the past six months. Says Bunroku Yoshino, president of Tokyo's Institute for International Economic Studies: "Fundamentally, Japan can stand a pretty sharp strengthening of the yen. But the suddenness of the rise is difficult to adjust to. If we have more time to adjust, then it might be all right...
...asserted correctly--and not anti-Semitically, that while the Jewish intellectuals emphasized their own cultural independence, they played fast and loose with the cultural independence of Blacks by advocating integration. As long as Black intellectuals continued to defer to their Jewish colleagues, according to Cruse, the Black community would be devoid of the kind of intellectual scrutiny that defined the Jewish community...
...last September finance ministers and central bankers of the U.S. and four other industrial powers--Japan, France, Great Britain and West Germany--launched a successful effort to push down the dollar. It has declined by about 12% since then, first at a gradual pace and now at a fast clip. Last week the dollar plunged to 181 yen, a seven-year low against that currency, and to 2.34 West German marks, a level not seen since...