Word: fasted
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Following the 1000 freestyle came a rare tie in the 200 freestyle between Harvard's Janice Sweetser and Darcie Ekert of Princeton. Their time of 1:52.54 was fast enough to give Sweetser a school record in the event...
Many other bills are piling up fast for the oil companies. Last week Unocal posted a loss of $134.7 million for the fourth quarter of 1985. The company was hurt last year by the cost of fighting off Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens and by its money-losing oil-shale plant in Colorado. While several big oil companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Mobil, showed earnings gains in the past quarter, most petroleum experts see a lean future. Says Constantine Fliakos, who follows the industry for Merrill Lynch: "The last good news in the oil patch was the fourth-quarter results...
...creaky and ponderous budget process and instead try to hammer out a grand compromise at a "summit" meeting between Hill leaders of both parties and the Administration. So far, however, Reagan has shown no willingness to come to the bargaining table. He seems to believe that if he stands fast, the Hill will eventually blink and adopt his budget. He figures that Congressmen will not want to go to the voters in November to explain why they raised taxes and jeopardized national security...
...advent of fast-burn technology could cast a terminal gloom over any feasible Star Wars defense system. With a boost phase of only two minutes--less than half that of conventional weapons--fast-burning rockets could penetrate the atmosphere and detonate their "throw-weight" of multiple warheads in substantially greater numbers than proposed SDI equipment could contain...
...Even before the report had been acknowledged by the SDI office, one human cog in the military-industrial machine was busy refuting its conclusions. Speaking on the condition that he not be identified, the official ventured that, in his opinion, the Russians would not be able to develop a fast-burn rocket for at least fifteen years...