Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public clamor for quicker, more effective action in the war on toxic wastes is fully justified, the expectation of easy or fast fixes is not. Some 66,000 chemicals are being used in the U.S.; EPA has classified 60,000 of them as potentially, if not definitely, hazardous to human health. They have been dumped or buried for years on the plausible but, as it turned out, ! tragically wrong theory that they would lose their toxicity during the decades it would take them to drift through layers of soil and rock into deep water supplies. There...
...second time this year, Harvard had to adjust to fast-paced play on artificial turf...
...performance of General Foods' new products, a crucial sign of success for a food company, has been uneven. While the cereal division's Fruit & Fibre took off fast when it was introduced in 1982, another cereal, a blue concoction called Smurf-Berry Crunch, flopped...
...peak in February, the dollar was selling at a far higher price than could be justified by any calculation of economic growth and inflation rates. A slow and irregular decline set in. Money traders, who were already debating how much further the dollar might fall and how fast, pounced on last Sunday's five-government announcement as a signal to start selling greenbacks immediately. In New York some traders came to work at 10 p.m. Sunday to be on hand for the opening of the Hong Kong and Singapore markets (Tokyo was closed for a holiday); others arrived...
...Worshipers seem to be everywhere, running along sandy beaches and park paths, cycling on city streets or backwoods roads, swimming, stretching, bending, twisting or--come on, just one more--perhaps lifting weights. By now it would appear that all Americans have experienced sweaty epiphanies and are fast on their way to becoming hardy hunks and blooming beauties. The truth, however, is a good deal flabbier...